Georgia placed a thousand native English speakers in its schools to displace Russian as the second language. A decade on, here is what survived and what did not.
Posts with tag.: language acquisition
A Wakefield Research survey found 58 percent of Americans fear foreign workers will take high-paying U.S. jobs because the country cannot speak other languages.
Vienna linguist Nikolaus Ritt argues sounds and words are selfish replicators that use speakers to copy themselves, turning language change into Darwinian evolution.
RIKEN researchers found Japanese infants stop hearing foreign sound sequences by 14 months, tuning their ears to native rules before learning words or grammar.
Georgia imported a thousand native English speakers to put one in every school, aiming to displace Russian as the second language. What worked, and what did not.
Ellen Jovin gave herself three months per language and 13 languages in three years, building a method out of deli shifts, tapes and refusing to wait for fluency.