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		sigstoat on Nov 25, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo > If you're trying to learn a language, you should learn the way children learn their first language: by speaking. this is a sufficiently awful way to learn a language that kids only do it because they've got to. (see the language acquisition literature.) > If you don't know anyone who speaks the language, what are you learning it for? argument by lack of imagination?

faitswulff on Nov 25, 2018 [–]

> kids only do it because they've got to

And it takes them significantly longer than an adult would to learn a new foreign language.

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