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27: David Eagleman | How Your Brain Makes Sense of the World

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How to Speak Chinese in a Foreign Language

When you look at your arbitrary squiggles, you don't even think about all the work that your brain is doing to translate those on the screen. And it turns out one way to sort of come to understand just a little bit about how much you're doing isn't very obvious. I started learning Chinese a long time of probably five years ago and when people hear me speak it, they're like, OK, that just sounds fake. That's is that really how you know, you're really speaking Chinese.

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