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3. What is a polyglot?
5. What are the reasons the polyglots are learning the language?
a.
b.
6. What are the 5 major reasons people feel they wouldn’t be able to learn a language?
a.
ii. By working ______% harder, you can catch up and overtake the naturally talented.
b.
c.
d.
i. It’s better when you revise these words with the right _______________.
ii. You revise a word just before you would forget it is called _______ _________.
iv. How can you learn the words faster and better?
e.
1. Only English
2. no
3. Someone who can speak many languages
4. Motivation
5.
a. They are passionate about that language, literature, movies, being able to read in the language, etc.
b. To use it with people.
6.
a. No language gene or talent
i. There is no language gene
ii. By working harder, 20% harder, and you can catch up and overtake the naturally talented.
b. Too old to learn a second language
i. No, could be environment
ii. Adults
c. Can’t travel to the country right now
d. Bad memory for all of that vocabulary
i. Frequency
ii. Spaced repetition
iii. Revise the word just before you would forget it: 1 day, 1 week, and 1 month later
iv. If you combine this with an image association technique
e. Frustrate native speakers
i. No
ii. 200 mistakes/day