Gabriel Wyner
American opera singer who had to sing convincingly in German, Italian, French and Russian, and built a language-learning method out of what that required. Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name.
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Their wordsBut that can’t possibly be true. Singers and actors learn new accents all the time, and they’re not, on average, smarter than everyone else (and they certainly don’t all start before the age of 7).
↗Discover the Key To Learning Pronunciationblog.fluent-forever.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Removing translation from the process is what lets you think in the language from the beginning.
Their wordsWhen you remove translation from your language learning process, you can learn to think in your target language from the beginning.
↗How To Learn a Language Fast: Say No to Translationblog.fluent-forever.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsFor one, if you don’t learn to hear the sounds in a new language, you’re doomed to have a hard time remembering it.
↗Discover the Key To Learning Pronunciationblog.fluent-forever.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThere is a limit to translation. You can make your translations more and more complex, and you can get very fast at them, but it will never be as fast or as fluent as simply thinking in the language.
↗How To Learn a Language Fast: Say No to Translationblog.fluent-forever.com 2nd of 2 in this piece