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.
Why building a love of the mother tongue matters most in the earliest years
Parents ask a great deal about how to add a second language and almost never ask the prior question: what happens to the...
A realistic roadmap for a six-year-old to learn — and love — English
The question every parent asks — what age is best to start? — is almost always the wrong question. What decides the outc...
A realistic roadmap for a six-year-old to learn — and love — Chinese
The Chinese roadmap is not a translation of the English one. It breaks in three places: characters have no phonics, a to...
How meditation improves learning — and how much of that holds up
You will read that meditation rewires the brain, boosts memory and sharpens focus. The evidence tells a narrower and mor...
Building reading and writing habits for IELTS
Someone does forty practice tests and stays at 6.5. The problem is rarely unfamiliarity with the format. This separates...
At which stage does a vocabulary notebook actually earn its keep?
Almost every language learner has bought a vocabulary notebook, filled it for three weeks and abandoned it. The right qu...
Literature, and how to approach it at every age
A four-year-old asks what happens next. A fifteen-year-old is asked to identify the theme. Somewhere between those two q...
Does personalised learning really beat standardised teaching?
Every education platform promises personalisation, and nearly all of them cite the same number from 1984. That number do...
Is cognition really in the body?
You wave your hands while hunting for a word, even on the phone where nobody can see you. That observation leads to one...