Language Learning Myths: Breaking the 'Language Gene' Misconception
00:00:00.000 | I totally understand coming from a monolingual English country, that you just think to yourself
00:00:07.880 | that I don't have the language gene.
00:00:10.800 | Other people have it, I don't have it.
00:00:12.960 | Or I did not grow up speaking a language, so it's too late, I'm past whatever the cutoff
00:00:18.960 | age is for learning a language.
00:00:21.120 | And a lot of people say these things to themselves, and that truly is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
00:00:26.600 | The more you embrace these reasons that you're going to fail, the more you essentially make
00:00:31.920 | them true.
00:00:33.520 | And I always like to think what Henry Ford said once, "Whether you think you can or think
00:00:38.360 | you can't, you're right."
00:00:40.520 | And I think that's very true with language learning.