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The Spotlight 1. ft. Arkady Zilberman - Why Polyglot Advice Fails Most Language Learners: The Science of How Fluency Really Works
You know the grammar. You remember the words. So why do you still freeze when it’s time to speak?
In the first episode of The Pedagogy Spotlight, Mike welcomes Arkady Zilberman, inventor of AnyLingo, to challenge a provocative idea: the advice that works for exceptional polyglots may fail many everyday language learners.
Is the problem our methods, our expectations—or our understanding of how fluency develops?
This conversation explores the gap between knowing a language and using it automatically, with direct questions about grammar instruction, memorization, implicit learning and individual…
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