Why Is Korean So Hard? - BLARB
Haskell suggests that a major reason is that transfer tends to be harder when our knowledge is more limited. As we develop more knowledge and skill in an area, they become more flexible and easier to apply outside the narrow contexts in which they were learned. However, I’d like to add my own hypothesis as an explanation for the transfer problem: m
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Trying to learn a foreign language—and getting far enough to actually communicate—will serve this same end, though it can be very costly. For a long time, you just won’t sound that smart or that clever.
Daniel Gross • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
So much of education is teaching people context. That is why it is hard, and also why it often does not seem like real learning.