language learning process

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Many students imagine language learning as a straight road. First you study: Step by step.Lesson after lesson.Topic after topic. The idea sounds logical. But real language learning almost never works this way. In practice, language development looks less like a straight road and more like a network of connections that gradually become stronger. Understanding this […]

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The Language I Live — Author’s Column by Tymur LevitinLanguage. Meaning. Thinking. For more than twenty years, I have been teaching languages to people of different ages, cultures, professions, and life situations.And during all these years, one idea keeps returning — sometimes quietly, sometimes painfully clearly: Language learning is not really about language. It is […]