Quotes by Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

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If you want big improvements, she said, chew gum. Gum? Sure enough, chewing gum has been shown to improve a person's imm — Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
A related notion is that when you really know a language, you think in it. In fact, the brain doesn't think in any langu — Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
What you see and hear is a situation in which languages are less like apples — neat and discrete — and more like oatmeal — Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Why are there more male hyperpolyglots? One answer is that speaking a lot of languages is a geek macho thing (...) It se — Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Possible explanations for talented language learning fall into two general areas. One view says: What matters is a perso — Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
One difference is that individuals living in multilingual communities seem to settle on an optimal cognitive load. The h — Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Some studies of successful language learners have suggested that they're more "open to new experiences" than the rest of — Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
One of the first things to understand was how people knew what language to speak to whom. Where I've lived in the Americ — Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
The fact that early languages, no matter how many there are, utilize the same streams implies that the brain doesn't hav — Michael Erard, Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners