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A comment on Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo. Parent comment

Re:Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo by sigstoat on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:05PM (#18527930)
> If you're trying to learn a language, you should learn the way children learn their first language: by speaking.

this is a sufficiently awful way to learn a language that kids only do it because they've got to. (see the language acquisition literature.)

> If you don't know anyone who speaks the language, what are you learning it for?

argument by lack of imagination?

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Re:Whether to Use Anki or SuperMemo by faitswulff on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:06PM (#18527934)
> kids only do it because they've got to

And it takes them significantly longer than an adult would to learn a new foreign language.

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