Gabriel Wyner
Person on 3 sites
American opera singer who had to sing convincingly in German, Italian, French and Russian, and built a language-learning method out of what that required.…
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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4 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The belief that an adult can no longer learn a good accent is false: singers and actors do it routinely. (opens korrents.com)
“But that can’t possibly be true. Singers and actors learn new accents all the time, and they’re not, on average, smarter than everyone else (and they certainly don’t all start before the age of 7).”
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Failing to hear a language's sounds is what makes its words impossible to remember. (opens korrents.com)
“For one, if you don’t learn to hear the sounds in a new language, you’re doomed to have a hard time remembering it.”
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Translating in your head has a ceiling; thinking in the language is the only thing that gets past it. (opens korrents.com)
“There is a limit to translation. You can make your translations more and more complex, and you can get very fast at them, but it will never be as fast or as fluent as simply thinking in the language.”
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The belief that an adult can no longer learn a good accent is false: singers and actors do it routinely. (opens korrents.com)
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8 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Anki (opens rcmnd.app)
“I recommend a free flashcard tool called “Anki.” It can be a bit tricky to set up and use, so I’ve made a collection of tutorials to make it a bit easier”
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Middlebury Language Schools (opens rcmnd.app)
“Middlebury: Middlebury’s language schools are phenomenal. I’ve been 4 times, I’m probably going to go back at least once for Japanese next year, and I just love them.”
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Colloquial Hungarian (opens rcmnd.app)
“The book I’d recommend instead is the Routledge Colloquial Hungarian series.”
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Anki (opens rcmnd.app)