How to learn a language with a chronic illness

The Rest Room

I’m joined by one of my best friends in the world, Colin Gorrie. Or should I say Dr. Colin Gorrie.
Colin is a linguist and lifelong language learner. These days he works on bringing knowledge of language and linguistics to a wider audience online.
Colin also lives with EDS and experiences a lot of brain fog and fatigue, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to sit down and have a chat about some of the challenges of language learning when your brain doesn’t really retain information in the way that you’d like.
You may know that about a month ago I started learning Yiddish. II honestly don’t think it would be happening or going as well as it is if Colin hadn’t spent hours blowing my mind with how the way we often approach language learning…is not…great.
And that’s exactly what we’ll be discussing:
🌟 How people currently learn languages
🌟 Whether there is a better way (spoiler alert, there is!)
🌟 Figuring out our motivations for language learning and how to get started
🌟 Getting the most bang for your language learning (and energy) buck
🌟 Ways to take some of the pressure off and make language learning fun
🌟 How to think about pacing and retention of information when it comes to language acquisition
As always, language learning may not be something that you're interested in, or you have the ability to do at the moment.
This information is here for people who can make use of it!
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