(Telegraph) Can’t learn a foreign language? Not true, say scientists
By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent 6:30AM GMT 15 Dec 2010
The brain can learn a new word in less than 15 minutes, according to scientists, whose finding will rob many of the excuse that they can’t learn a foreign language.
All one needs to do is listen to a word 160 times over that period, found Cambridge neuroscientists.
After that the brain will have formed a whole new network of neurons specifically tasked with remembering that word.
The process happens far quicker than previously thought, they found.
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