{"id":556,"date":"2026-02-28T23:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=556"},"modified":"2026-02-28T23:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:25:02","slug":"your-brain-can-crack-a-new-languages-patterns-in-three-days-fluency-takes-64-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=556","title":{"rendered":"Your brain can crack a new language\u2019s patterns in three days. Fluency takes 64 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2026\/02\/23\/your-brain-can-crack-a-new-languages-patterns-in-three-days-fluency-takes-64-weeks.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Your brain can crack a new language\u2019s patterns in three days. Fluency takes 64 weeks.\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/porto.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">boingboing.net<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Your brain can crack a new language\u2019s patterns in three days. Fluency takes 64 weeks.<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">A journalist hit 90% accuracy in Portuguese in three days. Real fluency takes the US military 64 weeks at 7 hours a day.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}