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The language learning industry is backwards. The success rate of language learners around the world is abysmal. Nearly EVERYONE studies a second language as a teen or adult, but the number of people who fluently speak that language well is shockingly low.
How could that be possible?! Humans are wired to learn language. We've been doing it for 150,000 YEARS. It's literally built into our DNA.
The traditional method of learning is what we call "grammar-translation."
Traditional learning teaches you grammar as a way to translate between two languages.
They think that if you just practice this translation enough, eventually it will become automatic and instantaneous and you’ll be fluent.
In reality, you just end up translating forever.
Upside: You can make blazing fast progress for a few days or weeks and speak pretty quickly. But there is a hard limit to using speaking hacks and memorizing phrases.
Downside: Speaking like this creates super unnatural language. Other languages aren't just English but with different pronunciation and word order.
When people dream of fluency, they imagine speaking a second language as naturally as their first, being able to navigate the language through feeling.