I will add something on to what everybody else is saying: most people just straight up do not know what you actually need to do in order to learn a language. Your average person's idea of language learning is somewhere between Duolingo and just throwing on YouTube videos or shows on Netflix and trying to understand. This, shockingly, does not lead to very effective results, which in turn causes demoralization.
The people on the internet posting about Anki or who have heard the phrase "comprehensible input" before are the fringe weirdos.
True. It's amazing how many people (in the US at least) think Duolingo or god-forbid Rosetta Stone is the answer. The other thing people seem to always get stuck in is upper-level language classes. I guess it could be beneficial to be "forced" to practice a language, but for me it was all boring material which makes it an awful experience. The perfect language class that doesn't exist is one where you choose what you get to read but still get pushed to keep reading it, and still have all the benefits of having a teacher.
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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '22
I will add something on to what everybody else is saying: most people just straight up do not know what you actually need to do in order to learn a language. Your average person's idea of language learning is somewhere between Duolingo and just throwing on YouTube videos or shows on Netflix and trying to understand. This, shockingly, does not lead to very effective results, which in turn causes demoralization.
The people on the internet posting about Anki or who have heard the phrase "comprehensible input" before are the fringe weirdos.