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“Colors of the Moon ” Is the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day of today, November 11, 2020
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therapist: how are you? me: fine how are you
hate 2 say it but british ppl had the right idea with saying whats all this then. like literally whats all this then
群像 2021年1月号
くどうれいんさん 「日々是目分量」
6.耳朶の紫式部 😭😢😂🥺😫
is she... y’know... *strives for attention of emotional support english teacher*
the worst part about studying languages is knowing that you will never be nearly as good at it as a literal baby
The only reason babies are better at language learning is because it’s their full time job and they don’t get embarrassed
If you, a teenaged or adult human, wasn’t embarrassed and could study language full time you would learn way faster than a baby.
In my defense, babies receive more positive reinforcement than I do as well. Babies will say ha ba bah dah ba hah and all the adults around them will be like 🤯 really? Wow 😱 that is so interesting 😁 great job! 🤗 and then what happened? 🤔
also people who are like “I’ve been studying for a year and I only have an eight-year-old’s grasp of the language”:
how long do you think it took the eight-year-old
I know this is a joke, but speaking as a (former) linguist, the idea that babies aren’t neurologically better at learning language isn’t… quite as wrong as it sounds. There’s still so much we don’t know about language acquisition, and there’s certainly evidence that there’s a deadline for first language acquisition, but “success” at second(+) language acquisition is so variable amongst individuals and communities (not to mention that a single definition of “success” is extremely difficult to pin down) that the old Critical Period Hypothesis (basically that humans suck at learning language after a certain age, usually puberty) is increasingly being shown to be a crock of shit.
The part about feedback is also somewhat correct – there’s no evidence that babies respond directly to feedback, like you might do to teachers’ comments on an assignment. However, there is evidence that babies do not learn effectively from, say, watching videos of people speaking. It’s only through direct interaction – regardless of what’s being said – that babies learn language.
The human brain is extremely complex and the way we learn and process language is no exception to that. If you’re a (post-) pubescent L2(+) learner and struggling, there are so so many reasons that might be. There’s definitely no need to feel bad about it, nor is there any reason to give up or believe achieving your goals is impossible.
I know I should cite sources but frankly I wasn’t the sort of student to memorize what paper which piece of information came from (which probably explains why I left grad school without a PhD among other reasons), so that would take like hours and this is fucking tumblr so nah, you don’t have to believe me.
And I will judge *you* for gratuitously tagging that drivel with the #linguistics tag.
i hate when people post something tangentially related to LANGUAGE itself and be like ‘#linguistics’ … like you’re not a linguist, you’re an annoying twit !
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