Fluent Forever : How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

No amount of drilling a particular grammar rule … will enable a student to skip a

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No amount of drilling a particular grammar rule … will enable a student to skip a
developmental stage: Note that these developmental stages don’t prevent you from memorizing
and using a few phrases with relatively advanced grammar. You could learn a phrase like “Would
you like some coffee?” within your first few weeks of studying English, even though it contains
would, the (difficult) English conditional form. Still, that doesn’t mean you’ll correctly spit out
“would” in any other contexts until you’ve reached the proper developmental stage.
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On average, adults learn languages faster than kids do: This fact blew my mind. Check out
Ortega, Lourdes. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. London: Hodder Education, 2009,
for a lovely summary of the differences and similarities between child and adult language learning.
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There’s one last tool at your disposal, and it’s where everything comes together: output:
Lourdes Ortega does a good job of summarizing the research on output in her aforementioned book.
Basically, research seems to indicate that input is necessary, but not sufficient for successful
language learning. While you can learn to comprehend a language very well using input alone, you
need output to learn how to produce it well. (You also need to care about the quality of your
output; there’s a fascinating case study in Ortega’s book in which a Japanese man is perfectly happy
speaking in broken English, so he never improves, even though he’s hanging out with English native
speakers all the time and speaking in English constantly.)

Chapter 6. The Language Game
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Practically speaking, we’ll automatically learn an unknown word 10 percent of the time: If
you’d like to learn more about the benefits of reading (and how well we learn from context), check
out W. E. Nagy, P. A. Herman, and R. C. Anderson, “Learning Words from Context,” Reading
Research Quarterly 20 (1985): 233–253.

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