Sara Maria Hasbun, founder of Meridian Linguistics, shares about psycholinguistics, working in the language industry, and “extreme” language learning.

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Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:

Choosing which language to learn
Learning languages in diverse language families
Studying psycholinguistics
Dialect and accent in sign languages
Living in different countries and learning the languages
Differences between a polyglot and a linguist
Learning a language with few resources
Why fluency doesn’t need to be the end goal for learning a language
Deciding when to learn a new language and when to focus on past languages
Technology and language
Balancing entrepreneurship in languages with language learning
Using accountability systems for motivation
Rote learning and its benefits
Combatting the boring aspects of language learning with tricks and bribes
Lessons from living abroad
“Extreme” language learning

Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy

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#69 Sara Maria Hasbun on the Psychology of Language Learning