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Saturday, October 04, 2014

Learning a Foreign Language as an Adult


Writing in TIME, CEO David Bailey tells how he learned French in 17 days. My favorite is the children's books idea.

3 comments:

  1. CincyCat5:28 PM

    "I still believe that writing things out by hand is the best way to memorize things." Truth. I was a voice major in college, and I can't begin to tell you how many recitals I "crammed" for by writing out the lyrics to the arias long-hand, over and over again. Yes, in foreign languages. :-)

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  2. CincyCat5:33 PM

    To add to my previous comment, it was not enough to simply memorize the words by rote. I had to know what they meant, so I could properly convey the message of the songs.

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  3. CincyCat,

    Excellent points!

    Michael

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