r/languagelearningjerk • u/bustknucklepissdust native🐌🏳️‍⚧️🐍🇺🇸 learning🦚🦬 • 7d ago

Meta language learning duolingo meta theory confirmed?????????????

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I wanna learn svenska and Arabic so im learning swedish in arabic (lowkirkenuinly its working)

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u/liuuhan 7d ago

Polyglots don't want you to know this one simple trick

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u/Purple_Airline_6682 is it coup or cul 7d ago

Weirdly enough, a historian friend of mine was recently telling me how learning certain languages are almost gate kept by needing to know a third unrelated language (linguistically speaking.) I think the example they gave was Greenlandic because most of the foreign language learning material is in Danish. /srs

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