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Are you struggling to learn a foreign language? During this event Sara Maria will explain how linguists learn languages quickly and efficiently, breaking down important strategies, providing effective resources, and dispelling a few myths about language learning.
What you will learn:
- What linguists know that you don’t
- How to design your optimal language-learning regimen
- How to find free and affordable language-learning resources that actually work
- How to stay motivated
- Which languages are the easiest, the hardest, and the most rewarding!
About the speaker:
Born a monolingual American, Sara Maria struggled with high school Spanish. She now speaks Spanish, French, Mandarin, American Sign Language, Nicaraguan Sign Language, and Korean, and can get by in Russian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Thai, Cantonese, and Indonesian. After freelancing as a translator and interpreter (including simultaneous interpretation at the United Nations and the translations of two published books) she started Meridian Linguistics, a linguistics consulting firm employing over 2,000 freelance translators and serving companies like The Economist and Airbnb. Sara Maria received her BA in Psycholinguistics at Columbia University, and was a PhD candidate at New York University before leaving to start her own company.