Language Learning Needs Brain Science

so we can acquire a new language easily and naturally

Can adding a machine into our journey to learn another language help? We think so as it can act as a “language parent” to exploit brain science. Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash

If you have been following my writing, you would know that a language is composed of a limited number of words. The most common 66 English words covers 50% of the language and by the time your vocabulary hits 2000 words, you have 80% of the most important words used in everyday conversation and average written content.

We learn other words on-the-fly throughout our lives.

It doesn’t take a $100M LLM-training-run to support this requirement!

Today’s newsletter looks into language learning and what it takes to learn a new language so, as my colleague Chris Lonsdale says, you can “master any language in 6 months.” You can read or see more in Medium and Chris’ viral YouTube TEDx talk with something like 35 million views on YouTube alone.

As usual, I will use hotlinks to online references for further reading and notes.

Language Learning isn’t hard, is it?

Many people want to learn a language, but don’t. I wanted to learn French at middle school, but my teacher at Princeton Middle School focused on conjugations and memorizing the French words that I could never remember. After a couple of years of French classes, I was…