http://l2mastery.com Tips, Tools, and Tech for Learning Any Language Fast Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:43:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://l2mastery.com/featured-articles/language-as-a-window-into-human-nature http://l2mastery.com/featured-articles/language-as-a-window-into-human-nature#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:28:13 +0000 John Fotheringham http://l2mastery.com/?p=239 I’m a big fan of Harvard’s Steven Pinker and RSA Animate makes his excellent talk about language and human nature even better. If you enjoy the talk, I highly suggest his influential book, The Language Instinct.  Incidentally, it was the first book I was assigned in university linguistics, is one of the only assigned books from university that I still own, and is the only college text I actually reread regularly for fun…

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