
Learning New Languages: Interview with Rob Paterson
Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast
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The Difference Between Knowledge and Skill
I think there's a key difference also between knowledge and skill where what we're kind of talking about is that that skill of being able to play music or being able to speak a language. traditionally those two things are kind of equated as the same thing you learn your vocab and your grammar rules but somehow that process of transferring that into a skill is often overlooked or kind of brushed aside by teachers. I'm very attracted to and this is also why I'm attracted to linguistics like I am attracted to the technical nerdy foundational things and thinking about them in real world circumstances. If you just learn them in isolation and you have no like contact with actual music and learning songs and identifying oh
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