The English Therapy Podcast: Recent Episodes
Drix Silva
The English Therapy Podcast brings some fresh insights into what makes a positive bilingual lifestyle so you can learn to appreciate your second language and contribute to transforming the bilingual culture around you.
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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 .
Should I hire a native speaker to help me learn English? Listen to this podcast regardless of whether you need an English teacher yourself, so you can offer better advice to those who are in the search for some help with the language.
In this episode, the cognitive linguist Drix Silva lays out the main differences between a native speaker of English and a teacher of English. Is there only one kind of teacher I can hire? Does he/she have to be native? Press the play button, find out and share.
You can find the transcript for this episode on Medium on our website: www.harmony-co.com/englishtherapy .
What stops us from becoming bilingual? Why do people get so frustrated when learning a second language? In this podcast I talk about "The Lizard Brain", a primitive the part of the human brain that is mostly responsible for our sense of fear, and how it impacts on second-language acquisition. You'll see that children are naturally immune to the Lizard, while adults will always have to face it every time they speak, regardless of how fluent they are in their second language. I'll also discuss why it is important for us to stay away from the Lizard and to take pride in your still-imperfect words, if you wish to become bilingual.
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The theme song for The English Therapy Podcast was kindly granted by Bianca Obino. It's called "Do Outro Lado do Mundo", from Bianca's album "Translated", released in 2017. For those who appreciate the universe of a bilingual life, this album is a must! Thank, you Bianca for lending us this exquisite soundtrack.
Becoming bilingual can be very challenging for some people. This podcast offers 7 laws that anyone can follow to make their language-learning experience into a kind of therapy. Drix Silva is a cognitive linguist, master in the Psychology of Language Processing and Learning by the University of Cambridge. To find out more about English Therapy, visit www.harmony-co.co/englishtherapy.