GE3B Week 8.4AM Learning a Language

Neil can speak four languages .

• True

• False

Neil says that you shouldn’t make mistakes

• True

• False

One in five people in Britain want to learn another language.

• True

• False

Rob guesses that there are 7,000 languages.

• True

• False

Learning a language can lead to brain decline.

• True

• False

It’s simpler to learn a second language when it’s similar to your first language.

• True

• False

Professor Stuart Webb recommends studying English in Japan

• True

• False

Taiwanese students often don’t know high frequency words after years of studying English.

• True

• False

So Rob, don't waste your time trying ₁_____________________ every single word.

For example, with English, I ₂_____________________ if you learn the 800 most frequent lemmas – which is a word and its inflections – that will account for about 75 per cent of all of the English language.