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The CEO of Air Canada spent 550 hours studying French over six years — and still couldn't speak it. Here's why traditional language learning fails, and what actually works.

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0:45 Why traditional language learning fails
1:58 How the brain really learns languages
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4:37 How LingQ removes the friction

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