A pill for learning Chinese?

Tue Jun 3 22:05:40 UTC 2014

I vaguely recall that the results of the study were that a tiny amount of alcohol relaxed the students and they did a bit better, but being out-and-out sloshed didn't work so well (big surprise!).

Dan V
Taipei

Daniel Steve Villarreal (萬丹青), Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English,
Center for General Education
National Defense Medical Center
Neihu, Taipei 11490, Taiwan
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From: anne marie devlin <anne_mariedevlin at hotmail.com>
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Dear Dick

Don't know anything about the pill, but there was a study carried out in the early 1970s by Guiora (I think) that highlighted the benefits of alcohol to SLA.

Reminds me of the Ogden Nash poem:
Candy is dandy
But liquor is quicker

All the best

Anne Marie

> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 13:35:35 +0100
> From: r.hudson at ucl.ac.uk
> To: edling at bunner.geol.lu.se
> Subject: [Edling] A pill for learning Chinese?
> 
> Dear Colleague,
> Anyone know about this suggestion that drugs can help language-learning?
> 
> http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/Are_drugs_the_answer_to_learning_a_language.cfm
> 
> Dick
> 
> 
> -- 
> Richard Hudson (dickhudson.com)
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