The Language Combo Everyone Should Know | Prediction, Reaction, and Commitment

Jayson Frascatore
7 min readNov 19, 2022
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Imagine you’re learning a language. Maybe that language is Mandarin Chinese. You just opened the Duolingo app on your phone and completed your 500 day streak. However, you’re still learning useless sentences such as “Zhang Ming does not eat fish” (张明不吃鱼)(Zhāng míng bù chī yú). Realistically, unless you know someone named Zhang Ming to begin with, you won’t…

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Jayson Frascatore

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