I've met Ben (which doesn't say much since many people have met him), read his blog posts from time to time and seen his TedX talk [1]. Being fluent in a langu

I've met Ben (which doesn't say much since many people have met him), read his blog posts from time to time and seen his TedX talk [1]. Being fluent in a language that isn't mine, near-fluent in another language and intermediate in yet another, I could never buy his idea of "just speak it without needing to know anything yet." If it were plausible, many people would not be monolingual. Plus, any claims of fluency in less than one year, in-country, I also don't buy...not true fluency, anyways. Other than that, I've got nothing against him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZqUeWshwMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZqUeWshwMs