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.
Beautiful Literary Books That Make You Want to Learn a Language
There is a familiar trap: buy a beautiful novel in the language you are learning, stall on page three, and conclude you...
The beauty of reading for pleasure
There is a state every absorbed reader knows and few can name: looking up and not knowing how long it has been. Victor N...
What poetry gives at each stage of a life
Poetry is the most useless thing every culture has. No society has ever discovered it and then given it up. This piece s...
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...
Reading to Understand vs. Reading to Learn a Language
You can read the same page for the message or for the language itself — and they are not the same act. The difference be...
Why Reading Stories Builds Fluency — at Any Age, in Any Language
The most powerful engine of fluency is not drills or flashcards — it is reading stories. Why extensive reading of litera...
Reading Aloud: How Speaking the Words Deepens Memory, Language, and Love
The childhood habit we abandoned is one of the most powerful things you can do with a book. How reading aloud helps you...
Reading for Meaning: Comprehension Beyond Decoding
A child can read every word on a page and understand none of it. Comprehension is a separate skill — and it can be taugh...