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In this episode, the cognitive linguist Drix Silva explores how our minds create meaning as we listen to other people speak in our second language. It turns out that understanding is a kind of a hallucination (a controlled simulation or illusion)  that rises from the integration between our internal and external contexts. What happens when this system fails? And, how do we use context to learn a language?

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You can find the transcript for this episode on Medium on our website: www.harmony-co.com/englishtherapy .