Language instruction by traditional courses/curriculum is grossly inefficient and ineffective, because courses focus on judging and ranking the students in what

Language instruction by traditional courses/curriculum is grossly inefficient and ineffective, because courses focus on judging and ranking the students in whatever way is easiest for the teacher to measure rather than on language acquisition per se. Many students come out of several years of instruction with next to no proficiency in the target language, and when they visit a country speaking that language end up lost and confused, unable to follow the most basic native conversations, let alone speak fluently themselves. Courses should focus substantially on maximizing comprehensible input of spoken language for at least the first half year, with negligible emphasis placed on students trying to learn formally (grammar, spelling, etc.) or make utterances in the target language. After 2–3 years courses should predominantly focus on reading. Get one student to take a traditional 1 hour per day Spanish course for 3 years and another student to watch an hour of https://youtube.com/c/DreamingSpanish/ https://youtube.com/c/DreamingSpanish/ every day for 1 year and the second student will come out ahead. And that’s just completely passive content from YouTube: a student who has conversations for an hour per day with native target-language speakers (where the student doesn’t try to produce the target language themselves but only listen to it) is going to do better still.