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…
Unlocking the Universe of Languages
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…
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…
Deep in the Amazon, linguist Daniel Everett encountered a language that seemed to break all the rules. His claim that Pirahã lacks recursion—a feature once thought to be the bedrock…