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[00:00.65] Todd: So, Julia, we're both teachers.

[00:02.90] Julia: That's right.

[00:03.65] Todd: And are you familiar with the different learner types?

[00:06.15] Julia: A little bit, yes, I encounter different kinds of learners in my classrooms.

[00:11.15] Todd: OK, so for example, what kind of learner are you?

[00:13.15] Julia: I think possibly more than one, maybe overlap on a couple, but primarily a visual learner so I'd have to take it in through my eyes usually like with a picture. I certainly have to see a word if I'm learning a language. I have to see it written down.

[00:27.40] Todd: So you need a phonetic script? You need something?

[00:31.15] Julia: I need something visual.

[00:32.40] Todd: Yeah for it to stick in your head?

[00:34.40] Julia: For it to stay in my mind, it has to have a visual. I can't just hear it for example. I can't just hear a word and remember it. I have to have some sort of visual to connect it to.

[00:42.90] Todd: OK, so you're a visual learner, anything else?

[00:45.65] Julia: I think it's called a visual learner. I don't know the technical term for it but an emotional learner if a...

[00:53.90] Todd: Really?

[00:54.40] Julia: Yeah. If a piece of information or the thing that I'm learning is attached to an emotional experience, I store it very definitively. I can remember it. I can recall it. If it's just a neutral, say a sentence, I can't remember it. It has to have a back story. It has to have an emotional connection somehow.

[01:13.90] Todd: Right. It has to have some connection?

[01:16.65] Julia: Yes, yeah. Usually a personal story especially humor. If there's a joke involved if it made me laugh at the time of learning it. I'm a laughter learner, I don't know if that's a real one but definitely an emotional response makes it much easier for me to learn something.