StoryLearning Podcast

010: How can you learn a completely different language?


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Today's episode features a question from Cecilia: "How can I learn a language that's completely different to my own?"

In this episode:
  • How can you learn a completely different language?
  • Why closer languages are easier to learn
  • The three keys:

    1. Time to get used to it
    2. Regular exposure
    3. Deliberate practice
    4. Today's featured resource 
      • Talk In Arabic - a fantastic new resource for learning Arabic.
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