Which leads us to one of the great contentious issues in language learning: the bulk memorisation of vocabulary.Īmong some people, using flashcard-based tools to memorise vocab is akin to summoning beelzebub in a fit of rage after discovering your ex is engaged to that one girl he’d always denied having feelings for. There is no magic app or book that’ll explain everything you need to know about a language and it also doesn’t help when people say things like “oh yes I lived in Hungary for two months and just picked it up” because they are lying. Language learning is one of those fields that sometimes feels like it is still living back in the “cocaine toothache drops, for sale by all druggists” heady era of unrepentant quackery.įrom beliefs that adults can simply learn a foreign language by osmosis and courses that’ll have you speaking like a native in thirty days, to some people’s very avant-garde interpretation of the word “fluent”, it’s no wonder most people who start give up pretty soon after.

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