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Going Native, Chapter 12 - Part II

Going Native, Chapter 12 - Part II

Listening to music is like playing tennis against somebody better

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Alex Johnson
Jul 26, 2023
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Going Native, Chapter 12 - Part II
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Previously: Going Native: Chapter 11: Part II - Songs get your language cogs turning

In a practical sense, the mixture of listening very hard to lyrics and then checking on the liner notes helped me overcome one of the major problems in learning a new language, that foreign words in a sentence often sound like they have all been rolled together. It’s not…

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