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If this drug improves your ability to perceive subtle differences in sound the way children can, I wonder if this could also facilitate learning a language with
by Cass 13y ago
If this drug improves your ability to perceive subtle differences in sound the way children can, I wonder if this could also facilitate learning a language with native-speaker pronunciation? As a German who still can't quite get the "th" sound right after a decade of speaking English fluently and is currently struggling badly with the Arabic غ, I'd find that rather more useful that absolute pitch.
- vincvinc 13y agoThis is what I was thinking. I would totally get treatment to 're-open' my critical period and get cracking on some tonal languages!!
- evmar 13y agoArabic غ is pretty similar to German's "r", isn't it? As a native English speaker who's studied both German and Arabic, I at least produce my mangled version of both in the same way...