Second Language Acquisition Learning

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Uploaded by on Nov 4, 2008

Second Language Acquisition Learning

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  • The topic of boobs isn't revealed!

  • This is such a helpful, though long, talk about learning a second language. She brings up a lot of interesting points about how we learn languages, which is very important to know. Thanks for the video!

  • @evelioto what a dumb comment.

  • @marconatrix what problem? She`s not a native English speaker yet she`s highly proficient. Solution? There`s no cure for a cool accent. Why would you want a native English clone? What`s the point?

  • Good speaker and great accent!

  • The problem seems to be that the speaker pauses in rather odd places, e.g. after "the" and "to". These are enclitics, closely bound to the following word with no independent stress. A native speaker would simply never pause in such places.

    She also demonstrates how uncorrected errors become habitual. She can pronounce [w] when she remembers, but often slips back to using [v] or [B]. We all know quite fluent L2 speakers who make habitual mistakes that they seem unable to eliminate. Solution?

  • the child acquire some kind of muffins? D:

  • what an accent D:

  • Her accent is at least understable. So it's alright for me.

  • I don't see anything wrong with her accent. Some of the words aren't pronounced correctly, and the intonation is slightly off. But other than that it's perfect English. I have been able to understand her the entire video.

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