Interview with Tim Ferriss: Intensive Language Learning and the Tim Ferriss Experiment

About two and a half years ago, I finally had the chance to catch up with Tim Ferriss and interview him about language learning. It went well besides my bad connection in Brazil meaning I had to upload the lowest possible quality video. We had a great chat about language learning in general, around the launch of his 4 hour chef book.

Now, Tim is launching an entire TV series about rapid learning, so I invited him back on to chat about it. Rather than vague questions though, I had the unique perspective of interacting with Tim twice since my last video on language learning projects, so I brought that up in this discussion, namely:

Being the small world that it is, without planning it we had the same teacher in one of our languages, and that person told me how crazy a student Tim was
One of the episodes of his TV show was about Tim attempting to learn enough Tagalog in 3 days to survive a televised interview in the language. He got in touch with me and I coached him on some shortcuts in the language, and what I tend to do for my first Skype chats or first Youtube uploads to be able to say as much as possible. He combined my tips with his own vast language learning experience and did a spectacular job, and you can see that in one of the earlier episodes of his series.

Other than that, the theme of our discussion is based around rapid language learning for immediate uses. I hope you enjoy it! (This time in HD