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Adults can have a tough time learning a new language. Some opt for language immersion, in which the person spends all their time reading, listening to and speaking the new language. Now research reveals that immersion students do indeed learn the new

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: why forgetfulness might actually help in learning a second language. RS: Ben Levy is a graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Oregon, studying an area

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Thirty years ago, Ted Conover wrote Rolling Nowhere: Riding The Roads With America's Hobos, an account of his time hopping freight trains across America. Asa, his teenage son, read the book last year, and asked his father if he'd s

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