Feb 24 2010
Second Language Comes Faster When Taught in Own Accent
February 19, 2010 msn
Learning a foreign language is easier if it’s taught in the accent of the listener, a new study finds. In most cases, second languages are taught to adults in the “original” accent of the new language. But researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel found that this method isn’t necessarily the best or quickest way to teach someone a new language.