One of her age-defying tricks involves a machine called a digital language repeater. Made in China, it’s a square silver box with a tape player. Instead of playing the tape directly, it stores the sounds in a digital buffer that can play snippets over and over at different speeds. She looks for language materials with audio recordings or pays local people to record texts, then listens to them at least fifteen times, until she knows all the vocabulary and grammatical expressions.
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