Are we, yes, where are we here?

Why are we here, not entirely clear?

We are misfits, thrust into existence by random chance,

with no hints at all as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all

it's immensely bizarre here we are

Hello everybody and welcome to the here we Are Podcast today. I'm still hanging around

Boston having a great time and I'm now at MIT once again talking with assistant

professor of cognitive

neuroscience at MIT Evelina Federinko is joining me today Evelina

thank you so much we're gonna be talking about language. It's one of my it's a fascinating topic and

It's it's something that I wish I was good with I feel like I I feel like I feel like I can understand the things that we're going to

be talking about today better than I can articulate them I wish I could use language as well as I understand it.

Confrehension is always ahead of production.

Yeah?

Is that true?

Yeah, yeah, kids learn to understand before they learn to speak and

foreigners can understand a lot more than they can say typically. Ah, that makes

sense. Yeah. I'm trying to think of where I want to start with you exactly.

I was wondering if maybe it's been a while since we've done a language episode and everyone has a different take too,

but just for maybe some of the listeners that haven't heard every single episode of the Here We Are

Podcast, could you maybe set up just to the haven't heard every single episode of the Here We Are Podcast.

Could you maybe set up just a little bit of the history

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