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Matt Vs Japan on why your accent matters, Stephen Krashen, the input hypothesis and much more

I'm Learning Mandarin

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The Difference Between Adults and Infants in Mandarin Learning

The advantages of learning through listening alone. The psychological distress might differ is what I was trying to get at. If you just sit in front of Chinese TV and just try to immerse in that then a lot of people would find that very distressing. We as adults we can't hear the specific differences between the phonemes that exist in the language we want to learn.

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