The thing that helped me learn 20 languages (it’s not discipline)

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  In my experience, you can't be curious about something that you have zero knowledge of.

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  So there are gaps in my knowledge which drive my curiosity.

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  Curiosity and enjoyment have been the drivers for me and particularly curiosity when it comes to learning new languages.

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  Ever since I had my first exposure to a professor at Miguel who made me curious about French culture.

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  All of a sudden I was motivated to learn the language,

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  curious, looking forward to learning more and more.

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  The 20 languages that I have learned, always I've been driven by my curiosity about the country,

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  about the people, about the culture, about the history.

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  And I've found it rewarding then to discover things about that language culture history and to discover the language.

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  And there's a lot of research now on how curiosity is a major driver of learning,

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  how it works in our brains, how it enhances memory.

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  And I will leave you some links to articles that I discovered on the internet that explain how this all works.

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  I hope you're curious enough to check these out.

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  But in my experience, you can't be...

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  curious about something that you have zero knowledge of.

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  So there are gaps in your knowledge, gaps in my knowledge, which drive my curiosity.

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  So I had some knowledge of French, you know,

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  I was not interested in high school, but this professor was able to trigger my curiosity.

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  So for example, I'm not very curious about differential calculus.

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  I'm not very curious about quantum physics, because there's too many obstacles there.

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