📝 Summary: Why We Struggle Learning Languages | Gabriel Wyner | TEDxNewBedford

Source: Why We Struggle Learning Languages | Gabriel Wyner | TEDxNewBedford

By Luis Francisco Montero Hernández @luisframontero

• Myth about learning English: Kids are exceptionally good at learning languages, and when we grow up, we lose that gift.
• Learning languages is correlated with the time exposure to the language.
• If a kid and an adult are exposed to a new language the same frame of time, the adult has better exploitation and learning.
• Real advantage of the children: they are fearless.
• Other advantage of the children is the advantage of time (we don’t have 15,000 hrs to learn any language).
• Use space repetition system (flashcards on steroids) in order to learn a Language.
• When you combine image and sound, they interconnect and form memory, and an experience could be interconnected to to images and sounds in order to make strong connections and memories.
  ++* If you want to learn a language efficiently, you need to give that language life. ++
  * Every sounds needs to be connected to images, and senses, and emotions, and tastes.
• Grammar cannot be an abstract gramatical code, it needs to be something to help to tell your story and your life.