The student of languages in me loves this thread by Lambda School employees explaining why they work at Lambda School, in several languages they didn’t grow up speaking.https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1112086003420807168 …
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(Language learning is, relevantly to Lambda School’s interests, an existence proof that it is possible to teach a difficult skill to an adult learner and that universities are absolutely rubbish at this despite having departments dedicated to it.)
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(No, seriously, only about ~10% of majors in non-Western languages who are not heritage speakers achieve sufficient proficiency to function in a business environment, at the US’ best schools.)
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Couldn’t let Lambda School have all the fun:pic.twitter.com/gSVMrsCrIQ
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Replying to @patio11
question for you: I speak Mandarin as a second language, one of my film/TV pet peeves is when Western actors speak Mandarin very slowly with good pronunciation.
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people who are conversationally fluent in a second language tend to speak fast with bad pronunciation. have you noticed similar things in japanese?
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I very rarely meet non-heritage speakers of Japanese who both a) have material proficiency in the language and b) have egregiously bad pronunciation. Then again I meet relatively few folks who clear first bar, though increasing last few years.
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