{"id":41122,"date":"2012-02-28T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T03:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41122"},"modified":"2012-02-28T19:02:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T03:02:15","slug":"how-the-alexander-technique-can-help-you-learn-a-foreign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41122","title":{"rendered":"How The Alexander Technique Can Help You Learn A Foreign Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Rickover <A HREF=\"http:\/\/alexanderaudio.com\/applications\/anderson.mp3\">tells<\/a> Harriet Anderson: &#8220;When learning a foreign language, there are pronunciations that are usually foreign. I wish I&#8217;d had Alexander lessons when I was taking French in high school. It would&#8217;ve saved me a world of grief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harriet: &#8220;First, as learning to learn. Learning a transferable skill. Learning to unlearn and learning to relearn. When we learn a foreign language as adults, we&#8217;ve been imprinted with our mother tongue. So it is important to unlearn the muscle patterns which make for specific pronunciation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Technique can help us learn new muscle patterns to make new sounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Rickover tells Harriet Anderson: &#8220;When learning a foreign language, there are pronunciations that are usually foreign. I wish I&#8217;d had Alexander lessons when I was taking French in high school. It would&#8217;ve saved me a world of grief.&#8221; Harriet: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=41122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-technique"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41123,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41122\/revisions\/41123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}