Have you ever experienced a sudden improvement in your speaking skills after binge watching a series or reading a book? Or the opposite, being stuck and almost unable to speak after studying a lot of grammar and vocabulary? What happens… Read More »What makes adults worse language learners than children?
Similar to our language abilities, I think we often take the importance of our memory for granted. We may even complain, “Oh, I have a memory like a sieve!”. But if you read about amnesiacs, people who lost their memory… Read More »Memory as the basis of meaningful life
I’m reading The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, and yesterday it was a chapter on how language is processed in the brain. You probably know that there are two main areas in the left hemisphere involved in this, Broca’s (speech… Read More »Aphasia