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

My Fluent Podcast

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How to Speak Ten Languages Badly?

The book is not for people who basically want to learn ten languages. But it's showing that, as we said before, there is a concept called language families. And because of an accident of history, english has connections between two groups of that family. So if you want to speak the language, i know this sounds obvious, we actually have to speak it. Sothe first chapter is called the birmingham screw driver. For those that don't know what that means, aBirmingham screw driver is a hammer. We can't learn to speak a language by reading it. Just like we can't use a hammer to turn a screw, we can’t learn to speaking a language

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