Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Learning to hear differently

Did you ever find yourself several months into learning a new language, able to read and write quite well, but still strugggling to understand the things you hear? Even when, and hearing them repeated, you realize you knew all those words?

It can be quite frustrating. But you might be relieved to learn that it's not just the accent that's throwing you off, and it's not that your brain can't process sounds in another language.

In fact, it might be something you've never thought about before,... continue reading at Fluent Every Year