Ep. 6: Benny Lewis on How to Learn a Language Fast
The SuperHuman Academy Podcast
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The Biggest Problem I Had With Mandarin
The three months sessions are essentially broken down into many missions. So for example, when i was learning chinese the very first week, there are of things that i needed to learn. I needed to learn tones and vocabulary because i didn't have any words. There's a thousand things that you need to learn. But i needed to find what is the biggest, most important thing that i need know right now? And i found that with mandarin. Whenever i tried to read the phrases from my phrase book, even when it was right in front of me, people wouldn't understand me. Even if i got the pronunciation of something right, my tones weren't right. so rather than decide
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