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    Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests

    The Guardian UK
    October 13, 2026
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    Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests

    <p>Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech sounds</p><p>If you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote learning vocabulary and grammar, focus on how they sound instead, research sugge

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