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There's various tools and techniques that places will try and sell you and they will all tout how great they are and speed it which you can learn the language w
by elmerfud 5y ago
There's various tools and techniques that places will try and sell you and they will all tout how great they are and speed it which you can learn the language with them. Since they do use various methods and they all say the same thing in their marketing materials I would have to consider that this is one of those areas where the tool is not as important as the user.
Personally I found when learning things like a new language, having a real tangible beneficial goal in front of me is more important than which method that I use. For example being in a relationship with someone who speaks the language that you want to learn and being cut off from your native language provides a tremendous tangible immediate goal to quickly pick up the language.
I kind of equate this to people who Windows only users and they ask me how to learn Linux. They'll indicate that they've taken some courses online and bought some books and read them and so they know these basic things about it but I tell them if they really want to learn it get rid of Windows and only use Linux. Because at that point you force yourself into a situation where if you want to do something there is now only one way to do it and it's not the way you previously knew so you must learn. That also causes you to learn in a more natural process where curiosity and problem solving become the things at hand rather than a consulting a book of rules and syntax.
When you learned your initial language you weren't taught it from rules and syntax out of a book you were simply immersed into it and you had a tremendous impetus to learn it.