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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
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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