Learn English with Josh Podcast - Episode 8: "Half a dozen French penises, please." (MEMBERS)
What happens when someone learning English makes a terrible mistake or mispronounces something that results in a tremendous social disaster? Does it make people laugh or does it make them run away in embarrassment? According to cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker, “...you and I belong to a species with a remarkable ability: we can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision. That ability is language. Simply by making noises with our mouths, we can reliably cause precise new combinations of ideas to arise in each other's minds.” But what happens when those noises are wrong?
In this episode, Josh talks about his experiences as an English teacher and some of the more hilarious mistakes that his students have made, and how he thinks it’s healthy just to laugh at all the comic mistakes. After all, learning a new language, especially English which is full of exceptions to the exceptions to the rules, is a precarious journey, so let’s have fun along the way, shall we?
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