A Language Learning Tale

Listen on Spotify: Link to Spotify Listen on YouTube: Link to YouTube Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today, the subject is … I’m Going to Forget This Or How Language Stays in your Memory for a Very Long Time You’ve probably heard of Steve Kaufmann, a prolific producer of language content on YouTube and elsewhere and a speaker, learner of a lot of languages. He frequently talks about the fact that you won’t forget everything you’ve learned about a language if you stop using it for a time. Your brain will remember and all that it needs is some reactivation. But is this true? You’ll remember, if you’ve been listening along to all these podcasts, that I started refreshing my French language a few months back. When I say refreshing, I hadn’t used it since leaving the education system at the age of 21. Let’s just say ...