Anecdotally, i have known this for years. Surround myself with designated smart people at work. Find myself becoming one of them. Fake it till you make it mixed with imposter syndrome hitting hard.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

This works with reading comprehension: if you have kids, always keep the subtitles on on the TV.

[–] astrsk@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is the research only new because we didn’t test this before? The number one advice to learn a language fast is to be totally submerged into the language and its culture. Seems like that would extend to just about any skill.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Fr. I spent 6 months in NZ and skipped so many lvs at my English school it was actually cheaper doing the exchange program than going to an english school.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Me, learning PHP/Java/html5 easily now...