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An easier way to learn a language? This is what research says
Topic Started: Feb 24 2018, 12:40 PM (5 Views)
victorgrant


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Learning a new language is hard — especially if you're an adult, especially if you're busy, and especially if the language is based on really different sounds than your native tongue. Hard, but not impossible. In Scientific American, Veronique Greenwood highlights two recent studies that suggest you can get better at a foreign language simply by listening to it, without speaking it yourself. Even if you're busy making dinner for your family, or running errands, or paying your bills, or whatever, you can do it while you're listening to a podcast in the language you're trying to learn. Greenwood describes the research nicely. She explains that in one study, published in 2015, native English speakers learned to distinguish between three sounds common in Hindi and Thai: "p," "b," and another sound similar to "b." One group of participants switched between 10 minutes of practice distinguishing the sounds and 10 minutes of a matching task. Another group just practiced distinguishing the sounds for one a hour a day on two days.

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