"Monolingual Fieldwork" Demonstration - Daniel Everett
Why Linguistics Stack Exchange recommends it
Linguistics Stack Exchange answerers point people to it when asked how a linguist begins learning an undocumented language with no common language, since it shows the method in practice.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2016 to 2022.
What it is
A 2013 LSA Summer Institute session in which linguist Daniel Everett demonstrates monolingual fieldwork, learning an unfamiliar language with no shared language to rely on. The live demonstration starts about six minutes in, followed by a lecture around the 44 minute mark.
Cited in 2 Wikipedia articles, including Daniel Everett, Monolingual fieldwork.
What people said
Recommends Greg Lee · 2016-06 · Linguistics Stack Exchange · on “How do people learn a totally foreign language that has not been studied at all?”
Here is a demonstration of a rather analytical approach to this learning about a completely foreign language when there is no common language to guide one. It is by Dan Everett, a student of Kenneth Pike, who was a master of the technique. Pike taught many students at the SIL, one of whose interests is translating the Bible into every language. The introducer, Sally Thomason, has been editor of Language for a number of years. Daniel Everett's monolingual demonstration [this video]
Recommends Nardog · 2019-09 · Linguistics Stack Exchange · on “How does a linguist learn a brand new language?”
Googling "monolingual fieldwork" turned up this video [this video] of Daniel Everett. The demonstration starts at ~6 minutes in and the lecture at ~44 minutes.
Recommends Tristan · 2022-04 · Linguistics Stack Exchange · on “How do field linguists begin to study an undocumented language which they cannot speak?”
Daniel Everett gives a demonstration of the "monolingual fieldwork" method he was trained in this video [this video] by the Linguistic Society of America, which may prove illustrative.