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Kaffe Kan Fikse en Tregmorgen

A playful deep dive into Norwegian compound word humor

Join me for another installment of my “Conversations with Robots” series.

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Molecular Vocabulary

Language is an extremely flexible tool. You can assemble words into messages that express an unlimited number of thoughts. Anything from “Where food?” to “Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.”

But in everyday speech, we don’t typically use words to communicate. We actually assemble most of our day to day utterances using larger chunks of language. What are those chunks? And why do I think they can be used to supercharge your language studies?

Let’s take a look…

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Automatic Language Growth

While working on the ear training features for the FrankenTongues app, I stumbled across a reference to the Automatic Language Growth (ALG) model of language learning, and the moment I read it, I had to stop everything I was doing to investigate.

Because it resonates loudly with my own views on how we learn languages.