Language processing truly takes place all though the brain with different languages utilizing different centers. Polish and Chinese speakers use more of their brain as seen on PET scans then English speakers. There is no such physical language center is currently known. However, Broca’s area and Wernicke’s area have both been shown to be important [...]
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Universal grammar
Linguists doubt exception to universal grammar by Robin H. Ray MIT-Controversies in the field of linguistics seldom make headlines, which is why the current imbroglio over an alleged counterexample to Universal Grammar (UG), made famous in the 1960s by Noam Chomsky, MIT professor of linguistics, is so unusual.
On one side is Daniel L. Everett, [...]
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How to learn vocabulary
With right lessons, non-native kindergarteners learn vocabulary faster than native English-speakers fromThe University of Chicago Press-An important study from The Elementary School Journal explores vocabulary development at the kindergarten level among English-only students (EOs) and English-language-learning students (ELLs) who speak another language at home. Analyzing rates of target word acquisition and overall [...]
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Language exposure
What you need to learn a language is exposure to the language. You need to hear words and phrases over and over again. If you do not hear these words over and over again. How can your brain ever form the right connections? Think about a brain cell, it must make countless complex connections [...]
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Less gym more learning
Learning languages ‘boosts brain’ from the BBC
Learning languages enhances the brain, scientists believe learning a second language “boosts” brain-power, scientists believe. Researchers from University College London studied the brains of 105 people - 80 of whom were bilingual.
They found learning other languages altered grey matter - the area of the brain which [...]
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Language construction
Every language learner, including myself wants to get back to their own language’s grammatical structure. But what if their target language is put together in a totally different way than their native language. For example cases. Almost unknown in modern English but is the main grammatical aspect in Slavic languages, such as Polish, Ukrainian [...]
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Sleep and language learning
To Understand The Big Picture, Give It Time – And Sleep from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Memorizing a series of facts is one thing, understanding the big picture is quite another. Now a new study demonstrates that relational memory – the ability to make logical “big picture” inferences from disparate pieces [...]
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What is the hardest language to learn?
Extremely Hard: The hardest language to learn is: Polish-Seven Cases, Seven Genders and very difficult pronunciation. Average English speaker is fluent at about the age 12; the average Polish speaker is fluent in their language not until age 16. .
Very Hard: Finnish, Hungarian, and Estonian-These languages are hard [...]
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Humility and learning
To speak a language you have to have a shift in your consciousness from your native language to your target language. This takes a lot of humility. If you are a prideful person you will not be able to do it. Why? Because you are so smart in your native language and to [...]
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Neurogenesis
Boost your brain… use your brawn by/from Telegraph Media Group telepraph.co.uk-Exercise appears to directly affect a region of the hippocampus, the area of the brain concerned with memory and learning, called the dentate gyrus, one of the few areas of the brain where neurogenesis - the creation of nerve cells - takes place. Building up [...]
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