Daily Digest 22/7/19 | A photographic memory for English
Today's daily digest talks about why I seem to contradict myself, how children remember everything they hear, and what it tells about how adults might learn a language better.
22 Juli 201915min
Daily Digest 19/7/19 | Learn English by doing nothing
Today's daily digest talks about what sign language can tell us about spoken language: why children are more successful at learning than adults, and how we can learn by doing nothing. You can become ...
19 Juli 201913min
Daily Digest 18/7/19 | Your name controls your life
Today's daily digest talks about how sound symbolism can work in two directions, why you should change your name to pass that English exam, and how to describe a room full of tropical birds.ç You can...
18 Juli 201913min
Daily Digest 17/7/19 | How to write better in English
Today's daily digest talks about how to learn how to write in English, and why you really have no excuses in 2019. You can become my patron here: https://www.patreon.com/canguroenglish
17 Juli 201912min
Daily Digest 16/7/19 | Adults learn languages better than children
Today's daily digest is about a group of rich and irritating Greek philosophers, and why children DO NOT learn languages better than adults.
16 Juli 201914min
Daily Digest 15/7/19 - In defense of non-native English
Today's daily digest talks about the myth of beautiful and ugly language, and why the critics are wrong about non-native English.
15 Juli 201917min
Language and communication (with Daniel Everett)
In this interview I talk to one of the most important and influential people working in the field of language today about the origins of language, language learning, and communication. He shares tips ...
13 Juli 201937min
Daily Digest 12/7/19 - Left and right
Today's daily digest talks about how superstition and bad science has led to hundreds of years of social and linguistic consequences for left-handed people.
12 Juli 201913min
