Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests
14 Oct 2026, 04:50 AM

Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests

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Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech soundsIf you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote learning vocabulary and grammar, focus on how they sound instead, research suggests.A new study of how humans learn modern languages has found that the brains of the most talented linguists hear foreign terms as random noise, not words. Continue reading...
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