If you check the study here it says Valproate was beneficial for this and is cited by 45 other studies:
https://www.ncbi.nlm...les/PMC3848041/
A distinct article
http://www.theverge....eriods-in-brain
One post on the page how-to-learn-any-language.com explains exactly how I feel about Korean, regardless you can read it here if you are interested http://how-to-learn-...128&PN=22&TPN=1 however you should be aware that forum is off and you cannot post any new topics.
First of all, the journal that study was published in has no impact factor, not even a bad one, which is a terrible sign. Impact factor is a reputation system measuring the quality of a journal. It basically keeps track of how many times a journal is cited by other journals. So this journal isn't being cited by other journals. Not good.
I couldn't find any study on pubmed that duplicates this one. That's the fundamental key to science, can the findings be reproduced? It's been 3 years since this came out, and nada.
Valproate is a serious drug with serious potential side effects, amongst them emotional numbness, ESPECIALLY if you are not bipolar. And given what I said about, it's unlikely to work. This doesn't sound very appealing.
So what have you tried, in terms of study strategies, do get over this hump? Have you tried any nootropics?
Yeah I figured there were things that are not cool that Valproate might do. I have never used any smart drugs.
Some people are better at distinguishing sounds of speech than others. Low dose LSD or other psychedelics have been said to help with this, though I obviously cannot recommend it. Perhaps a milder sort of drug with similar characteristics, such as marijuana, where legal, would help.
Sir Richard Burton (the explorer, not the actor) was an accomplished linguist who recommended taking a native speaker as a lover as the best way to learn a language. Sometimes easier said than done. Fining a linguistics text that describes the position of the tongue, the direction it moves, how the breath is released, etc. to make a sound, may enable you to reproduce it.
Have you tried the Pimsleur method? Their approach uses no written material, at least at first: Everything is auditory. You hear it and try to say it. Worked for me with Chinese.
Definitely. Pimsleur is awesome. Actually, I cannot split the sounds on there, either. One case of this is with the expression "mot haeyo" as can't do. Much of the time the first word sounds like moat, occasionally it's boot, maybe boat, or moot. But it's all the same word.