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106 - The Language Secret - John Stedman - How to Learn a Foreign Language: Or. How to Speak 10 Languages. Badly

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The Language Secret Starts in Africa

The language secret is basically two elements. The first element is to speak a language well. You have to speak it badly. If they came from another language area, within weeks, they were speaking the local language. They just wanted to communicate by what they needed at the market. And the second element is the idea of language families. Now if we learn which language family english is in, for example, it can help us learn the other languages in that family much more quickly.

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