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813. Language Learning is a Voyage of Discovery / Steve Kaufmann Interview

Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson

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How Did You Learn Mandarin?

In 1968, when the Cultural Revolution in China was raging, Canada did not want to send him to Taiwan. He spent three hours a day one on one with Mandarin speaking teachers and read enormous amounts of Chinese. That kind of established his idea that to learn a language, you need to listen and read a lot,. I'm talking millions of words. So that the brain gets used to the language and you start to discover the patterns of the language.

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