## Metadata * Author: [[Albert Costa]] * ASIN: B07MWTL58L * ISBN: 0141990384 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MWTL58L ## Highlights Tell me, I’ll forget Show me, I’ll remember Involve me, I’ll understand — location: [255](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=255) ^ref-17327 --- ‘He who does not know foreign languages knows nothing about his own.’ — location: [315](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=315) ^ref-13810 --- In Spanish, if we hear the sequence of three consonants str, there must be either a syllabic border between the s and t (e.g. as-tro-nau-ta ‘astronaut’) or a word boundary (e.g. las trenes ‘the trains’). This is due to the fact that there are no words in Spanish ending with -st or beginning with str-. — location: [322](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=322) ^ref-56533 --- In all human languages the probability that two syllables (or phonemes) follow one another (something known as transitional probability) is higher inside words than between words. — location: [328](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=328) ^ref-29211 --- 40 per cent of languages are tonal. — location: [403](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=403) ^ref-21041 --- certain differences in some of the strategies that come into play when bilinguals and monolinguals learn new words. One of them is what we call the mutual exclusivity strategy. — location: [638](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=638) ^ref-49334 --- The number of lexical labels that bilingual babies recognize in each of their languages is lower than that of monolingual babies. — location: [657](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=657) ^ref-14262 --- social communicative interaction is fundamental to the learning of a foreign language, — location: [690](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=690) ^ref-28286 --- The children preferred to interact with other children of a different skin colour as long as they were native speakers of English; more so than with children with the same skin colour but who spoke English with a foreign accent. — location: [714](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=714) ^ref-10548 --- what has a greater effect, the age of acquisition or the acquired competency? — location: [983](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B07MWTL58L&location=983) ^ref-11842 ---