The Army Method: A Story of Language Hacking
Before Duolingo's friendly owl, there was a system born from the desperate urgency of WWII. The Audiolingual Method, or "Army Method," was a radical experiment designed to forge fluent speakers…
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The “Wug” Test: How a Fake Bird Revealed the Secrets of Child Language Acquisition
In 1958, a fictional bird called a "wug" helped solve one of the biggest mysteries of the human mind: how children learn language. The groundbreaking "Wug Test" revealed that kids…