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All Ears English Podcast

AEE 162: Can You Learn English in Your Sleep?

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Business, Language Learning

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2014

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Taking IELTS? Get our free IELTS video training Can you learn English in your sleep? Today we talk about this interesting question, and new research presented in Wired Magazine that says it may be possible! Get more info here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is an All-Eirs English podcast, episode 162.

0:04.3

Can you learn English in your sleep?

0:06.5

Welcome to the All-Eirs English podcast where you'll get real native English conversation

0:16.2

and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection not, when it comes to learning English.

0:25.6

Now here are your hosts Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Aubrey Carter, the Ilds Whiz, coming to you from Arizona and Boston, USA.

0:37.0

Today we ask the question, can you learn English if you listen to

0:45.8

vocabulary while you sleep? Let's review a study that had some interesting

0:49.8

findings on this topic today.

1:06.2

Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with

1:10.9

creative friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.

1:15.5

And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.

1:20.8

Ready to spark something?

1:22.2

Download The Sims 4 and play for free.

1:24.8

Lindsey, have you ever tried to learn language while you sleep?

1:31.2

Oh, no, I've never tried to I mean I have certainly had dreams in another

1:37.2

language that happens a lot when I'm immersed if I'm living abroad or if I'm just

1:41.2

focusing heavily in a language at that moment, I will definitely dream in a second

1:46.4

language. But I've never like tried to consume the language like playing an audio while I'm asleep.

1:53.2

Definitely before bed.

1:54.5

I haven't thought about that.

1:55.1

I have fallen asleep listening to like a podcast

1:57.8

in another language.

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