What is some curious and unexpected custom method you use to learn a language better?

What is some curious and unexpected custom method you use to learn a language better?

23 votes, 36 comments. I'd like to know if you guys have a particular method (maybe that you invented) that helped you to learn a language, maybe…

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How To (Really) Learn A Foreign Language While You Sleep

The old saying that we can solve problems more effectively when we “sleep on it” may be especially true if the problem we’re trying to solve is learning a new language. Researchers from two Swiss universities wanted to know if they could enhance the learning of words from a foreign language [...]

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Why You Should Keep Listening Even If You Don’t Understand | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Like I’ve said before…the set of tools/methods described on this site…I don’t know why it all works; looking at and thinking about how people learn their native language, it just all seemed obvious to me. In other words, I knew what I needed to do to achieve fluency…but not much more.

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You can learn a foreign language in your sleep, say Swiss

Study played newly-learned foreign vocabulary to students and compared their memory with those who were played the words while awake

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Language models (LMs) can produce fluent, grammatical text. Nonetheless, some maintain that language models don’t really learn language and also, even if they did, that would not be informative for the study of human learning and processing. On the other side, there have been claims that the success of LMs obviates the need for studying linguistic theory and structure. We argue that both extremes are wrong. LMs can contribute to fundamental questions about linguistic structure, language processing, and learning. They force us to rethink arguments and ways of thinking that have been foundational in linguistics. While they do not replace linguistic structure and theory, they serve as model systems and working proofs of concept for gradient, usage-based approaches to language. We offer an optimistic take on the relationship between language models and linguistics.

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A year ago today the Computing curriculum was introduced by the government. Python now overtakes French as the most popular 'language' taught in primay schools.

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