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#58 Scott Young: Learning for Real Life

Make Things That Matter

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When learning a new language, it can kind of, through this interference effect, suppress the other languages. When you get really good at one language, it's saylet's say jus just imagine, each english word. You are getting better at switching onob when iam in french mode, i only activate these words. When i'm in spanish mode, iOnly activate those words. Now, what does that mean? Is a practical point of view? Well, i think it's still probably beneficial in the early phases of a language to do one at a time,. particularly because conversations are so difficult that any extra difficulty just really makes it worse. In the long term, if

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