Suppose you had perfect hearing and mimicking ability in a foreign language. You could hear every syllable and transcribe it in IPA, and repeat it with a native accent. Then you could understand everything except the semantics.
Then you could memorize vocabulary by associating sounds with meanings.
Language learning would be easy, then.
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Leaving aside grammar.
Didn’t you just describe early childhood language acquisition?
ReplyDeleteYes. But I'm imagining it for an adult. Even a kid can have pronunciation issues that will resolve themselves.
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