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Made, Not Born: the Anatomy of Talent

Asaki Osato - 2012 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival 

A few days ago I took apart some of the thinking behind excuse making. Later, as I was thinking about my pet peeve – the “no talent for learning languages” excuse – I asked myself: what leads to “a gift of learning languages?”

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Polyglot’s Nemesis: The Anatomy of an Excuse

O OUTRO LADO DO MEDO É A LIBERDADE (The Other Side of the Fear is the Freedom)

“Stop making excuses and get to work.”
“That’s just a bad excuse and you know it.”
Well, do you? How much do you really know about your excuses? Do they really matter to your language study? And if they really tend to upset the work of all language learners – wouldn’t it help to learn more about them?
Let’s do that tonight. No excuses here. Come on, this one won’t hurt 🙂