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Sleep boosts ability to learn language, University of Chicago researchers find
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Scientists at the University of Chicago have demonstrated that sleeping has an important and previously unrecognized impact on improving people's ability to learn language.
Researchers find that ability of students to retain knowledge about words is improved by sleep, even when the students seemed to forget some of what they learned during the day before the next night's sleep. This paper, "Consolidation During Sleep of Perceptual Learning of Spoken Language," was published in the journal Nature. The paper was prepared by researcher Kimberly Fenn, Howard Nusbaum, Professor of Psychology, and Daniel Margoliash, Professor in Organismal Biology and Anatomy.
"Sleep has at least two separate effects on learning," the authors write. "Sleep consolidates memories, protecting them against subsequent interference or decay. Sleep also appears to 'recover' or restore memories."
Scientists have long hypothesized that sleep has an impact on learning, but the new study is the first to provide scientific evidence that brain activity promotes higher-level types of learning while we sleep.
Although the study dealt specifically with word learning, the findings may be relevant to other learning, Nusbaum said. "We have known that people learn better if they learn smaller bits of information over a period of days rather than all at once. This research could show how sleep helps us retain what we learn."
In fact, the idea for the study arose from discussions Nusbaum and Fenn had with Margoliash, who studies vocal (song) learning in birds. "We were surprised several years ago to discover that birds apparently 'dream of singing' and this might be important for song learning," Margoliash said.
"Ultimately, our discussions stimulated a research design first proposed by Kim Fenn. The interdisciplinary nature of the research and the free exchange of ideas between animal and human work is also very exciting for us," Margoliash added.
For their study, the team tested college student understanding of a series of common words produced in a mechanical, robotic way by a voice synthesizer that made the words difficult to understand. They first measured the students' ability to recognize the words. They then trained them to recognize the words and then tested them again to see how effective the training was.
See the entire release at: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/uocm-sba100603.php
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Foreign Service Institute Portuguese 2 Released on CD
Multilingual Books is happy to offer the latest FSI (Foreign Service Institute) course CD release from Language Associates: FSI Portuguese 2! These exclusive versions have the quality and convenience of a CD along with the top-notch language teaching methods that the Foreign Service is famous for. Each new version has been carefully digitally remastered for greatly improved sound quality as compared to the commonly available cassette courses or other FSI vendors and is exclusive to Language Associates products. We now have FSI or DLI courses available remastered on CD in over 15 languages including: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Cantonese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Iraqi, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, and Thai. Find out more about our FSI courses at our
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Digital Product Review
This month we review our digital product offerings. Products such as our Digital Edition MP3 and PDF courses or Pimsleur on Bookchip courses offer increased portability for learning "on the go" and in many cases substantial savings over standard format courses. Get the most out of your laptop, palmtop, or audiobook player, or if you don't have one of these nifty items, check out our package deals! Find out more about our digital offerings at our Digital Editions page.
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These exciting new products let you take language learning anywhere and make great holiday gifts! Find out more about our digital offerings at our Digital Editions page.
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Last month's quiz: In Sweden, Swedish is spoken, obviously, but a native speaker would say "Svenska" rather than "Swedish". Provide the English language names for the following languages. Polski - Polish Magyar - Hungarian Suomi - Finnish Ellinika - Greek Kijomba - Swahili Extra credit: "Almanca" is the word for the German language in Turkish. Our winner is Susan Richter. Thanks to everyone who entered and congratulations to our winner. This month's trivia quiz: What do (or did) the following famous people have in common?
Edgar Allan Poe The answers and the winner will be in our next newsletter. Winner will receive their choice of one Talk Now or World Talk language CD-ROM! No purchase necessary to enter. E-mail your entry to:
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https://www.languagepolicy.org
What does the U.S. government do to promote language learning? More than you might think! Dig around this unassuming site and you'll find an extensive links list of government language programs, teaching associations, and so on as well as news on language related legislation, grants, programs and more.
Check it out at https://www.languagepolicy.org.
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