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by barrell
1284 days ago
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> Some people can pick up languages relatively easily, and some people can’t. I’d push back on this idea, and instead say that some people learn really well from the current tools, and some people can’t. 99.99% of the population picked up their mother tongue just like everybody else. Naturally there are differences in the population, but I would posit that if you learned a language once (or twice or three times - I know trilingual people who insist they can’t learn a foreign language because they failed Duolingo Spanish) you can learn a language again. My bias is that I’m working on an alternative language learning tool now - one aimed at ‘language acquisition’ over ‘language learning’, or basically how can you learn a language by just talking/listening to native speakers. Aimed at those who have finished traditional courses and want to master a language, or those who have tried traditional courses and find it didn’t mentally agree with them. |
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They have - over the course of many years, completely submerged in the environment of their mother tongue, when they had an abundance of leisure time.