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2022-12-07 05:52 am
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Learning Languages

It should be super easy to learn languages on the internet, but it doesn't seem people are any more likely to be multilingual today than they were before the advent of the internet. I don't know if this is just a perception I have or if it's true for people in general. It has unfortunately been true for me.
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2021-08-22 09:11 pm

Learning From Others

I've learned so much from other people.  I mean, most the things I know are naturally a direct or indirect result of other people.  Anything I've ever learned through reading books and such was learned from some other person, but I think there's something to be said for directly interacting with other people.  And I don't think there has to be any intention by anyone to teach for people to learn from such experiences.  I think both learning and teaching have the potential to be both active or passive processes, which I think is in conflict with the popular conception of learning and teaching as dichotomy between learning as a process of passive absorbtion vs teaching as a process of active effort.