Everyone Hates Eisel Mazard.

Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001,...

The moral of the story here is that youtube is really just a blank sheet of paper: you can learn a lot from working with it, or you can squander the opportunity, learning nothing at all. Originally uploaded as a livestream (on à-bas-le-ciel) under the title, "Theo Slade: it's always unreasonable to expect reasonable criticism." LINK: ⁠https://youtube.com/live/pxbF2bDTFdI⁠ This was up...

Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001,...

On à-bas-le-ciel: LINK : https://youtube.com/live/t6vBgeJRiyI On Eisel Mazard, Monolingual Polyglot: LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tY7o0cE-sk Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel...

The longest 15 minutes of your whole entire life. ;-) #polyglot Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", pro...

On the psychology of language learning and the biological limits to the philosophy of education, this is a video indirectly inspired by Lindie Botes' resolution to learn "12 languages for 2020", link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ODo_fABYac Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under...

Find me on Instagram. Support me on Patreon. Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings).https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/postsAR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.)...

The first ten minutes of this consists of genuinely new content, with some genuine reflections on my personal life that will interest longstanding viewers of my channel  even if they're not interested in learning Chinese.  The final 12 minutes are a remix of an old video (that you may or may not be able to remember, even if you've seen it) for reasons explained within the first ten. LINK :...

Here's the link to the article, if you want to "read along": https://a-bas-le-ciel.blogspot.com/2026/04/are-you-reading-for-sake-of-book-are.html The difficult-to-spell youtube channel mentioned in the first few minutes = ​ @eumieverse Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many dif...

Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001, etc.) hosted by Eise...

The first few minutes of the video refer to "Evildea" —spelled just the way it sounds— who is a professed expert in Esperanto and Toki Pona, I will have you know. This was first uploaded to Eisel Mazard: Monolingual Polyglot. LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HhTV8jxCR4 Some number of minutes later it materialized on à-bas-le-ciel. LINK : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7b10USDVhI...

This… THIS is why Everyone Hates Eisel Mazard. ;-) Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consis...

A New Definition of "Linguistic Nihilism". Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing cons...

The #1 vibes-based language education channel on the internet. You realize. Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinio...

This one is on "Eisel Mazard: Monolingual Polyglot" the youtube channel, and "Everyone Hates Eisel Mazard" the podcast, but not on à-bas-le-ciel. LINK : https://youtu.be/bJk8AJde9uY

Perhaps the ultimate example of my motto, "HOW NOT WHY". ;-) Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion&quo...

Learning a New Language for All the Wrong Reasons. An imperfect parallel to my "dramatic return" to ASOIAF youtubing, I'd point out that quite a few of you started following me for precisely content of this kind… EVEN IF YOU'D RATHER NOT ADMIT IT NOW, IN RETROSPECT. ;-) Escapism, political engagement and the alternatives: to what extent am I learning a new language just to escape...

This one has interesting connections to what I've published in all three books, so far: (1) No More Manifestos, obviously, (2) Future of an Illusion, cryptically, and (3) Blood in the Snow, positively esoterically. Nobody will recognize what I'm doing (in these decades) as the proposal of a new kind of "philosophy of education"… BUT IT IS. ;-) Find me on Instagram.  Support me on...

Socrates died for your sins, and unlike Jesus or Santa Claus or whatever, he had the good taste and refinement to stay dead, so that we could all keep on sinning. #vegan #vegans #veganism #veganmovement #veganfuture Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.inst...

With supporting roles for Michelle Latimer, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond and Buffy Sainte-Marie. This… THIS is why everyone hates Eisel Mazard. Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO...

Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Active Research and Informed Opinion", providing consistent numbering for all of the episodes (AR+IO-001,...

The ultimate "how not why" video, concluding with an admission that I can't answer the latter question. And, perhaps, the ultimate "meaning of life" video as well. This was remixed from a recording in 2018, and to paraphrase 50 Cent only slightly, "I AIN'T CHANGED". #quitvideogames #quiteverything

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Implicitly, this is a significant contrast to my old "manifesto" titled On Community , although it does not address the thesis of that video, directly, in any way: if you regard this as a manifesto, it is addressed to the youtuber (or podcaster) as a solitary intellectual dissident, cultural critic, commentator and comedian --not as the center of an incipient community, pulling together...

The excuses are harder to quit than the thing itself, bro. This… THIS is Why Everyone Hates Eisel Mazard. Find me on Instagram.  Support me on Patreon.  Both will provide notifications for new podcast episodes (not just "here", but under many different headings). https://www.instagram.com/a_bas_le_ciel/ https://www.patreon.com/c/a_bas_le_ciel/posts AR+IO abbreviates the motto "Activ...