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Permalink Reply by Arkady Zilberman on March 10, 2012 at 12:18pm

In childhood our brain has an ability to hear the speech sounds (phonemes) of all languages in our environment that is why children can easily learn one or a few languages and speak them without an accent.

Adults lose this ability; they see things through the lens of our native language, which results in subconscious cross-translation into native language of all information given in the course of learning a foreign language.

To become efficient learners of a foreign language adults need a new method of learning a foreign language as a skill on a subconscious and conscious levels that will automatically turn off cross-translation and will form the English speech center in the brain. 

Any suggestions?

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