Picking Up a Second Language is Predicted by Ability to Learn Patterns, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Study

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Some people seem to pick up a second language with relative ease, while others have a much more difficult time. Now, a new study suggests that learning to understand and read a second language may be driven, at least in part, by our ability to pick up on statistical regularities.

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