
#43 Eliza Simpson on Accent Training with Hollywood Stars
Language & Travel Hacking
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How Humans Learn to Speak by Mimicry
As infants, across languages, you'll notice that a lot of those first words or first audible phonemes use the lips and are some sort of bilabial. So we learn the mechanic of speech by mimicry, by watching and recreating. And then at a certain point, we as a society decide that language needs to be taught.
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