In this episode of the podcast, we talk about the power of play and how to learn like kids to boost your language learning.

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In This Lesson, You Learned:

As a parent, I've had firsthand experience seeing how kids learn languages. And I've been involved in supporting my children becoming multilingual.

One of the best strategies I've both observed and tried personally is that of play.

Play isn't all just fun and games. In fact, it's an effect way to learn, explore, process, and start to grasp new things — including language.

Are you playing in your language?

If not, it's something you should aim to implement.

Think about ways you enjoy playing in your native language — whether it's board games, mobile games, video games or something else. Try doing a bit of it in your target language.

Play is engaging, it's explorative, and it's fun. And it's so much more than that. All of this makes it an incredible learning tool.

Featured Trade Secret:

It's often said that kids are better language learners than adults.

I don't agree.

As adults, there are a lot of external influences and internal influences that "block" us from learning languages like children.

The first is that kids don't yet see mistakes as a "big deal". As adults, mistakes are terrifying. We have a greater awareness of ourselves and what we think other people think about us.

The other way kids are better language learners than us is that they have more free time. As adults, we have jobs, bills, hobbies, responsibilities, and other things that require our time. Kids have a lot more free time and don't feel the time pressures we feel as adults.

By rethinking how you handle mistakes and time restrictions, you can liberate many of the mental barriers you build up around language learning.

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