I'm with you as far as input goes, but I don't understand this at all: >Also: People say that learners don't get as much chances to output as they would like.

I'm with you as far as input goes, but I don't understand this at all: >Also: People say that learners don't get as much chances to output as they would like. That isn't mostly true. And even farther from the truth is to say that outputting more would lead to better language acquisition. Isn't the only way (for most people) to actually learn a language to speak it as much as possible?