106 - The Language Secret - John Stedman - How to Learn a Foreign Language: Or. How to Speak 10 Languages. Badly
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The Sun Is Not Your Friend
Every language has a word for the son, in gr disonne or lesole in french. But if you say that in africa, the word sun doesn't have the same meaning. In congo, the word for sun is tang tango also means time. So the sun is not your friend. The sun is just marks the tin ed. That makes it even more interesting to learn languages because actually you need to to learn the culture. It's not just the language. Language is a half way into culture. And that's why to be successful in learning a language, we have to be interested in the people, not just words on the page.
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