Scottish as a Second Language

[Francis Hult]

Science

 

Scottish as a Second Language

 

It's a common problem for people learning a foreign language. You've mastered one dialect--say, the Norwegian spoken in Oslo or the Spanish spoken in Mexico--and then you go to Trondheim or Madrid and think, "What in the heck are these people speaking?" A new study offers a tip for learning to recognize unfamiliar dialects: Watch a foreign film with foreign subtitles.

 

Full story:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1111/2

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