813. Language Learning is a Voyage of Discovery / Steve Kaufmann Interview
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Learning a Language Is Like a Cow Eating Grass
German neuroscientist Manfred Spitzer says that the brain requires repetition, but also novelty. Learning a language is like a cow eating grass because you got to keep moving. If you stay in the same sort of part of the field, all the grass will be gone. You got to move to some other areas, eat some grass. In the meantime, that area will have grown some more grass. So there you go. Chew on the language, swallow it, leave it, let your stomach try and digest it, bring it back up. That's how it works. I like it. It's a little disgusting, but I guess it works. Yeah. The brain wants new
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