{"id":29793,"date":"2006-09-08T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/09\/08\/turns-out-you-cant-learn-mandarin-chinese-by-watching-television\/"},"modified":"2006-09-08T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T10:00:14","slug":"turns-out-you-cant-learn-mandarin-chinese-by-watching-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060908-14\/?p=29793","title":{"rendered":"Turns out you can&#039;t learn Mandarin Chinese by watching television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It is generally accepted that language exposure in the first year of a baby&#8217;s life is important. To what certainly must be the dismay of couch potatoes everywhere, researchers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/\"> University of Washington<\/a> determined that it&#8217;s particularly important that it come from a live human being. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/newsroom\/news\/2003archive\/02-03archive\/k021703.html\"> Watching DVDs doesn&#8217;t have any effect<\/a>. What was particularly notable to the researchers was that even just five hours of exposure made a significant impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is generally accepted that language exposure in the first year of a baby&#8217;s life is important. To what certainly must be the dismay of couch potatoes everywhere, researchers at the University of Washington determined that it&#8217;s particularly important that it come from a live human being. Watching DVDs doesn&#8217;t have any effect. What was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-29793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It is generally accepted that language exposure in the first year of a baby&#8217;s life is important. To what certainly must be the dismay of couch potatoes everywhere, researchers at the University of Washington determined that it&#8217;s particularly important that it come from a live human being. Watching DVDs doesn&#8217;t have any effect. What was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}