
教育与技能
The time it takes to learn a new language depends on what you want to do with it
If you go by the ads for some language learning apps, you can “have a conversation in a new language in three weeks”.
Ingrid Piller, PhD, FAHA, is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research expertise is in the fields of intercultural communication, bilingual education and the sociolinguistics of language learning and multilingualism in the contexts of migration and globalization.