{"id":1858,"date":"2013-06-16T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2013-06-16T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T15:38:14","slug":"can%c2%b4t-learn-won%c2%b4t-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/16\/can%c2%b4t-learn-won%c2%b4t-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u00b4t Learn, Won\u00b4t Learn!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Can\u00b4t<\/a>Everyone can learn a new language! That\u00b4s not just an optimistic line aimed at someone later on in life who is groaning at the thought of having to start to learn a language, or someone\u00a0 who never did well in school and thinks they don\u00b4t have the ability to learn. According to research, it has been scientifically proven that, with the correct learning techniques, a new language can be learned by anyone at any time.<\/p>\n

How? When someone has been out of an educational environment for a long time or doesn\u00b4t have a knack for learning languages, this may seem very unlikely. It\u00b4s simple! They just need to listen to a word 160 times over a period of 14 minutes according to neuroscientists. The brain may struggle to recognise the new word being introduced initially but, after this amount of exposure to the word, it suddenly recognises the word as indistinguishable from those they are already familiar with. Findings also showed that it wasn\u00b4t necessary for any active participation of the volunteers in the study to try to learn the language; there were no memory tests or repetition exercises, just listening and their brains did the rest of the hard work.<\/p>\n

But let\u00b4s face it, with such busy lives, who has either the time or inclination to learn new words 160 times, whatever the time period they can be learned over? The study has proven that everyone has the ability to learn a new language, no matter what their age or learning capabilities but, in real terms, the findings aren\u00b4t really feasible or practical. The interesting part of the study is that no active participation was needed, just to listen. This is already a teaching method used widely nowadays, where teachers are doing away with the traditional schooling methods of using books and writing tasks, and are concentrating on speaking the language with the onus on the pupils to listen and tune into the new words without questioning the structure and meaning as they would normally.<\/p>\n

To relax and enjoy the lessons is also said to enhance the learning process and helps to increase the level at which the new language is absorbed. To make something a difficult task makes it a chore and can act as a hindrance as the brain can \u201cswitch off\u201d and therefore not take in as much information. Whereas, if a subject is enjoyable and is practised in a relaxed atmosphere, the brain is more \u201cswitched on\u201d and receptive to taking in new information.<\/p>\n

So if you\u00b4re ready to learn a foreign language and eager to do so without the tediousness often associated with lessons, then it\u00b4s time to explore the more modern teaching methods available to you. Using innovative training techniques and by combining language learning with a fun approach, you can easily be at a conversational level in your chosen language in no time at all.\u00a0 If you\u00b4d like to speak a Romance language, for example, then immerse yourself in some lively Italian lessons in London<\/b><\/a> for fast results in an entertaining way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone can learn a new language! That\u00b4s not just an optimistic line aimed at someone later on in life who is groaning at the thought of having to start to learn a language, or someone\u00a0 who never did well in school and thinks they don\u00b4t have the ability to learn. According to research, it has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,506,154],"tags":[506,457,44],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-italian","category-research","tag-italian","tag-language-research","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}