NATIONAL BESTSELLER • For anyone who wants to learn a foreign language this is the method that
will finally make the words stick. A brilliant and thoroughly modern guide to learning new
languages.-Gary Marcus cognitive psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller
Guitar Zero At thirty years old Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn't learn
them in school-who does? Rather he learned them in the past few years working on his own and
practicing on the subway using simple techniques and free online resources-and here he wants
to show others what he's discovered. Starting with pronunciation you'll learn how to rewire
your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds. You'll retrain your tongue to produce
those sounds accurately using tricks from opera singers and actors. Next you'll begin to
tackle words and connect sounds and spellings to imagery rather than translations which will
enable you to think in a foreign language. And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition
techniques you'll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day. This is
brain hacking at its most exciting taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and
using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the
spare minutes of your day.
