Learning Science
How the brain learns — and how to apply it to language and life.
The articles in this section are written and synthesised by AI from published research in the fields of learning science and linguistics.
The sources for each article are listed at the end of the piece — do read them, both for a fuller grounding and to satisfy yourself as to their reliability.
How people learned languages before technology
Four thousand years before the first app, somebody was sitting down to learn a language that was not their own — with no...
How AI creates the illusion of fluency
The session with the AI flowed. You understood everything, you were gently corrected, you closed the laptop feeling it h...
The world’s multilingual cities
New York has seven hundred languages and a great many people who speak one. What actually happens in the most linguistic...
The Myth of Learning Styles
Nearly nine teachers in ten believe that matching a lesson to a student’s learning style helps them learn. When the clai...
One hour a day on a phone from age six: what actually changes in a child's brain
No study answers the question in the form you asked it. But one mechanism is barely disputed: an hour is an hour, and wh...
IELTS Listening: every question type and how to prepare for it
The recording plays exactly once. That single fact governs the whole paper, and every technique worth learning is a cons...
IELTS Speaking: all three parts and how to prepare
The three parts are not three difficulty levels of the same task. They test different things — and the answer length tha...
IELTS Writing: every task type in Task 1 and Task 2
Task 2 counts twice as much as Task 1. So the most consequential decision you make is not a good phrase — it is stopping...
IELTS Reading: all fourteen question types and how to prepare
Unlike Listening, Reading gives you no transfer time. Sixty minutes is everything you get, and that single fact shapes e...