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Jun 27, 2014 34 min

Some Tips on How To Learn a Foreign Language

from Please Explain (The Leonard Lopate Show) Hosted by WNYC

Katharine B. Nielson, chief education officer at Voxy, discusses how we learn languages, why it can get more difficult to learn new languages as we get older, and why the challenge of learning a language is good for our brains.

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