Fluent forever : how to learn any language fast and never forget it / Gabriel Wyner.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Harmony Books, [2014]Edition: First EditionDescription: ix, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0385348118
- 9780385348119
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 418.0071 W985 | Checked out | water damage on top corner of pages. 3/13/2024 | 07/17/2024 | 33111007629724 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER .For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language, this is the method that will finally make the words stick.
"A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new languages."-Gary Marcus, cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Guitar Zero
At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn't learn them in school-who does? Rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources-and here he wants to show others what he's discovered.
Starting with pronunciation, you'll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You'll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next, you'll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you'll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day.
This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-317) and index.
Stab, stab, stab -- Upload : five principles to end forgetting -- Sound play -- Word play and the symphony of a word -- Sentence play -- The language game.
For those who have despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick. At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He did not learn them in school -- who does? -- rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources. In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he has discovered.