2025-04-03
10 分钟Today I want to talk about the power of novelty, of new.
Last week I spoke about repetition and the importance of repetition in language learning.
I made reference to Manfred Spitzer,
who talks about the necessity or the requirement of the brain in order to learn.
We need repetition, but also, he says, we need novelty.
And I want to talk a little bit about novelty and how you can embrace novelty to basically empower your language learning.
I thought of this because I was listening to a podcast, Tarek Osman,
who talks about history, he talks about the Arab world, he talks about economics.
He speaks very clearly.
It's in Egyptian Arabic.
I haven't spent much time on Egyptian Arabic.
Arabic that lasted a while.
I may have explained here that I've been at Levantine Arabic,
Egyptian Arabic, Standard Arabic for five, six years.
During that period, I've also studied Farsi.
I've studied Turkish.
In fact, I used my Turkish when I was recently in Turkey.
However, I all of a sudden decided, you know, because I'm on some podcast service,
Apple podcast, roaming, and I come across this podcast by Tarek Osman.
So I started listening.