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#632: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath (Repost)

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Is Language Acquisition a Study of Language?

The way that I look at language is really acquiring concepts and almost an operating system for thinking that is associated with a different culture. It's almost like going to the gym and lifting weights because to produce a sound like or a word like yeshu which is maybe or if you want to ask with a retroflex of tongue, nashush, hamashushing, what is that thing? You really need to develop musculature that you have not developed before as a native English speaker. So in my experience you can very often tell a lot about someone by not just the language they speak but the particular dialect within that language that they choose. That can apply to English and the particular nuances or

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