The time it takes to learn a new language depends on what you want to do with it
- Written by Ingrid Piller, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Macquarie University
Knowing how to ask for directions in another language is vastly different from studying and working using the language. Photo by Sebastian Hietsch on Unsplash
If you go by the ads for some language learning apps, you can “have a conversation in a new language in three weeks”.
But the experience of most Australians when trying to learn a...
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