Can Duolingo Make You Fluent? How Your Brain Learns a Language
In this episode, host Collin Adams and neuroscientist Dr. Ramona von Leden dig into how the brain learns, understands and produces language.
They also answer the question millions of people ask every day: can you really learn a new language from your phone?
In this episode:
• Why your brain starts preparing a reply before the other person stops talking
• How pattern prediction lets you read jumbled words, and why masks and texts make people harder to understand
• Why language is a whole-brain, whole-body process, not just Broca's and Wernicke's areas
• How babies pick up language, and why…
The skinny
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