> Best way to learn [to understand] a language is to watch tv and movies. There's no replacement for having to dig into the "vocabulary bag" and pull out a wor

> Best way to learn [to understand] a language is to watch tv and movies. There's no replacement for having to dig into the "vocabulary bag" and pull out a word when you need it, or the "fluency" that comes from having someone ask you a question that you have to string together multiple vocabulary words _in the right order_ to answer It's like any homework: it's the challenge that solidifies the pathways, otherwise just sitting in a calculus class would be all one needed to become Laplace