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148 - Language Learning with Ben Whately (Co-founder of Memrise)

American English Podcast

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The Importance of Video for Beginners

For beginners video is so important because if you just have audio and there are words in it, you don't understand. Whereas if there's video as well, it's much easier. I actually once did this as an experiment. When they're looking at a video, most stuff is the same and the behavior of the person is the same. And where the word changes, they can kind of see from the actions what the changes were. This is not done to a level of scientific experiment. This is me trying to run lots of little tests in our office to try and better understand how to make products.

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