Chapter 335: [Does Speed Learning Really Work?]

Well, I was thinking it’s about time to wrap up this stream.

Just as I had that thought, something happened.

≫All languages are special, huh? (Ukrainian)

≫I get it now. And yeah, learning a foreign language is really tough. (Ukrainian)

≫Foreign languages have a lot of features that our own language doesn’t. (Ukrainian)

≫On the other hand, Ilesha mastering it is amazing. (Ukrainian)

≫We need to work hard to catch up too. (Ukrainian)

≫But… didn’t Ilesha learn it because she was still a "child"? (Ukrainian)

That last comment caught my eye.

Apparently, Illyena noticed it too. She tilted her head as she read it aloud.

≫What do they mean??? (Ukrainian)

≫Like, Ilesha said she evacuated to Japan with her mom, right? So how does that compare? (Ukrainian)

≫Between you and your mom, who speaks Japanese better? (Ukrainian)

≫But that’s just because you studied a lot, right? (Ukrainian)

≫You worked hard to get close to Iroha-sama! (Ukrainian)

≫Plus, with school, it’s only natural Ilesha would learn faster, right? (Ukrainian)

Of course, starting early means you can spend more time practicing, but that’s not all…

For example, there was a case where someone thought to be intellectually disabled turned out to have a hearing impairment. The woman was over 30 years old at the time, but she couldn’t learn language after that.

Meanwhile, there’s a child who was raised in isolation until the age of six without knowing any language. After just two years of learning, they could speak normally.

Honestly, the situations are too different, and we still lack enough scientific data for this theory. So, it’s just a hypothesis. But I think it matches our intuition that "kids learn faster."

≫When did Ilesha come to Japan again?

≫It was when she was in 6th grade, right? (Ukrainian)

≫So, that would be within the critical period, huh? (Ukrainian)

Wait? Now that I think about it, wasn’t it around that time I started remembering my past life?

And also when my physical growth started to stagnate.

Could it be that I’ve been in my critical period this whole time…?

Yeah, right! No way!

≫But that means we should start teaching kids English as early as possible, huh?

≫I thought it was too early to teach English from elementary school, but from a critical period perspective, it makes sense.

≫Maybe I should start playing "Speed Learning" CDs at home for my baby too.

≫If even the language prodigy Akasama can’t do it, no one can! (Ukrainian)

≫I thought it’d be great if you could learn English just by listening! But of course, there’s no easy way.

≫In the end, practical use is the best way to learn a foreign language. (Ukrainian)

≫Whaaat? Impossible??? (Ukrainian)

≫Wait a second, but didn’t Iroha-chan…? (Ukrainian)

≫Hold on, isn’t there already a living counterexample?! (Ukrainian)

≫Hard (but not impossible)

≫Almost (but not for Iroha-chan) impossible

≫Stooop! You’re breaking modern linguistics!!