Imagine you could become fluent in any language you wanted to - in a matter of hours and days, rather than months and years.

Now imagine you could do this by playing a game, and teach all your friends and family to speak the same way.

Welcome to LANGUAGE HUNTING.

In this book you'll approach the craft of Language Hunting from seven different directions; doing it for real, looking at the big picture, looking at the details, reading stories of it in action, interviews with players, troubleshooting learning challenges, and exploring the science behind it. Explore these tried and true practical tools for becoming fluent in your desired languages, developed over thousands of hours of learning game play, and borrowed from well-known accelerated learning methodologies.

Use this book in partnership with documented Language Hunters game videos already publicly available on the internet, and you can begin playing within minutes.

Willem Larsen (president of the non-profit Language Hunters organization) and his colleagues based their work on the understanding that mimicry and copying is how people learn their mother languages. Did any of us take English lessons as babies and toddlers? Of course not - now imagine that same natural learning occurring at much faster rate because as adults, well, we’re not babies anymore. The best part is that we don’t have to work at it, or memorize anything, we just play along.

Willem's goal is to create a multilingual world where kids (and adults!) can routinely speak 20 or more languages. And not just French, Spanish and German – but indigenous and heritage languages which are currently in a state of crisis and are at risk of being lost forever. Language Hunting has been used with dozens of languages, such as Irish (Gaeilge), Unangam Tunuu (Aleut), Tlingit, and Farsi.

Please note that this book is an early work-in-progress, in accord with the Lean Publishing Manifesto. By buying this early ebook, you're buying a sneak-peak and an opportunity to provide early feedback about what you need to make the Kit work better for you, along with getting right away some solid and useful information that hasn't been presented anywhere else. Though the book isn't finished, it's already packed with stories, instructions, and diagrams on how Language Hunting works.

1. Acknowledgements
2. Preface
3. Introduction
4. 1 The Life of a Language Hunter
5. 1.1 The Case for Language Hunting
6. 1.2 How Do People React to Language Hunting?
7. 1.3 I Didn’t Promise You A Rose Garden
8. 1.4 The Clash of Cultures
9. 2 Where to Begin?
10. 2.1 Do It Right Now
11. 2.2 Look at the Big Picture
12. 2.3 Look at the Details
13. 2.4 Read the Stories
14. 2.5 Explore the Science
15. 2.6 Now It’s Your Turn
16. 3 What Does it Look Like?
17. 3.1 The “Language Hunt!” Game - Fluent Leader
18. 3.2 The “Language Hunt!” Game - Fluent Fool
19. 3.3 The “Language Hunt!” Game - Bucket Brigade
20. 3.4 The “Language Hunt!” Game - Hunting Pack
21. 3.5 Language Hunting in the Field
22. 4 The Flow of Learning
23. 4.1 The Fluent Edge
24. 4.2 Managing the Learning Cycle
25. 4.3 Looking for Feedback
26. 4.4 Game Flow
27. 5 Learning is a Feeling
28. 5.1 One of Our Own
29. 5.2 Throw Energy at the Problem
30. 6 Memory, Retention, and Mnemonics
31. 6.1 Memory
32. 6.2 The Morning After
33. 6.3 Why Mnemonics?
34. 7 Sign and Gesture
35. 7.1 One Learning Accelerator of Many
36. 7.2 Universal Language?
37. 7.3 The Beautiful and Diverse Speech of the Hands, Face, and Body
38. 7.4 Learning ASL or Your Local Signed Language
39. 8 The Community Mosaic
40. 8.1 Language As Community
41. 8.2 There Are Many Roles to Play
42. 9 Endangered Languages, Endangered Communities
43. 9.1 Looking for Solutions to the Endangered Language Crisis
44. 9.2 Speakers and Teachers
45. 9.3 Applying Language Hunting to an Endangered Language
46. 9.4 Outside-In: The Community Liaison Team
47. 9.5 Sizing Up the Level of Challenge
48. 9.6 Guerrilla Evaluation
49. 9.7 Ground-Truthing the Evaluation
50. 9.8 We’re All In This Together
51. 9.9 Keep in Mind That Not Everyone Will Become a Language Hunter
52. 10 Applying the Rules to Language Learning
53. 10.1 COPY-CAT
54. 10.2 OBVIOUSLY!
55. 10.3 LIMIT
56. 10.4 SET-UP
57. 10.5 Hunt SET-UPS, Not Language
58. 10.6 MOMMY TALK
59. 10.7 FULL SENTENCES
60. 10.8 KILLING FAIRIES
61. 10.9 TRADING GAME
62. 10.10 LINKED LIST
63. 10.11 ACCENT
64. 10.12 READ MY LIPS
65. 10.13 LISTENING, SPEAKING, READING, WRITING
66. 10.14 TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE/SORRY, CHARLIE
67. 10.15 RACE TO THE PARTY
68. 10.16 EMPTY CUP/FULL CUP, BLACK PEN/RED PEN, ROCK/STICK
69. 10.17 BLUE SCREEN/GREEN SCREEN
70. 10.18 THE INNER CIRCLE
71. 10.19 INNER CIRCLE FULL
72. 10.20 ENERGIZER
73. 10.21 HOW FASCINATING!
74. 10.22 BREAK A RULE
75. 10.23 THE LOTUS
76. 10.24 TEN TINY HUNTS
77. 10.25 CORRECTION RESPONSE
78. 10.26 THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS
79. 10.27 TEA WITH GRANDMA
80. 10.28 POTTY MOUTH
81. 10.29 SHADOWING
82. 10.30 BUBBLING-UP
83. 11 The Race to Get to the Party
84. 11.1 Lap 1
85. 11.2 WHAT
86. 11.3 TRADING GAME
87. 11.4 WHO/WHOSE
88. 11.5 WHERE
89. 11.6 HOW MANY
90. 11.7 WHY
91. 11.8 THE WALK
92. 12 The Race: Lap 2
93. 12.1 WHAT HAPPENED?
94. 12.2 WHEN
95. 12.3 HOW
96. 13 Choosing Your Props, Choosing Your Conversation
97. 13.1 Portable, Handheld, Common, Familiar, Favorite
98. 13.2 The Signal Strength Scale
99. 13.3 The Smallest Difference
100. 14 The Ten Tiny Hunts
101. 14.1 The Paradox of the Bridge Language
102. 15 The Rules of Accelerated Learning
103. 15.1 Alive
104. 15.2 Fluency over Knowledge
105. 15.3 The Fluent Edge
106. 15.4 Let’s Play
107. 15.5 Continuous Improvement
108. 15.6 Signal Strength
109. 15.7 Narrow Scope
110. 15.8 Designed Environment
111. 15.9 Start at the Beginning
112. 15.10 Imitation
113. 15.11 Contract
114. 15.12 Mumble
115. 15.13 Gesture
116. 15.14 Nested Complexity
117. 15.15 Warm/Fed/Rested/Safe/Willing
118. 15.16 The Diagnostic Wheel
119. 15.17 Needs Gap
120. 15.18 The Conversation
121. 15.19 A Few of My Favorite Things
122. 15.20 Pressure Valve
123. 15.21 Full
124. 15.22 Slow/Fast
125. 15.23 In Threes
126. 15.24 Consecutive Meets
127. 15.25 No-Grief Debrief
128. 15.26 Aha!
129. 15.27 Just in Time
130. 15.28 We’ll All Get There Together
131. 15.29 Over-do It
132. 15.30 Initiation
133. 15.31 Same Rotation
134. 15.32 The Meadow
135. 15.33 Feed Your Mind
136. 15.34 Teach a Teacher
137. 15.35 Smallest Difference
138. 15.36 Linking
139. 15.37 Goal Conversation
140. 15.38 Bucket Brigade
141. 15.39 Pull Me Through It
142. 15.40 My Turn/Your Turn
143. 15.41 Angel on Your Shoulder
144. 15.42 Extended Family
145. 15.43 Directed Inquiry
146. 16 The Science of Language Hunting
147. 16.1 Limit
148. 16.2 Killing Fairies
149. 16.3 The Walk
150. 16.4 We’ll All Get There Together
151. 16.5 Race To The Party
152. 16.6 Start at the Beginning
153. 16.7 The Meadow
154. 16.8 The Language Hunter
155. 16.9 Twenty- Language Child
156. 16.10 Endangered Language Crisis
157. 16.11 My Turn/ Your Turn
158. 16.12 Mumble
159. 16.13 Read My Lips
160. 16.14 How Fascinating!
161. 16.15 Needs Gap
162. 16.16 Aha!
163. 16.17 Gesture
164. 16.18 Imitation
165. 17 Falling in Love: A Conclusion