This comes up often, and every time I have to disagree- there are things you can only learn actively, sure, but past that your brain is constantly analyzing and

This comes up often, and every time I have to disagree- there are things you can only learn actively, sure, but past that your brain is constantly analyzing and extracting the relevant features from all information you process. Personal anecdote: I've learned a good chunk of a language just by consuming a lot of subtitled media in it.