The Language Challenge

Imagine you are in a library. You go to the foreign section and you pick up the German stories book. You open it and you see this pool of unknown words, all linked to each other in what seems to be a mess.

I find it intriguing to think that where you see a mess, somebody sees structure and sense.

Fast forward 2 years: you have been studying German for a while now; you find yourself in that same library and you remember... You go to the foreign section and find that same book, you open it and you find that everything makes sense.

What has changed?

Certainly, the pages stayed the same, if we ignore that they look slightly more yellow. Yet so much has changed in your mind to allow you to recognize and understand all that "mess".

This is not a story. Yesterday I was in a library in Notting Hill, I found a German book and I thought about this.

I don't know German yet, but I was thinking how the Lazy Language Approach could help me with that.

2 years seem to much for the method we created, more likely 4 months would suffice, 4 months of 5 minutes sessions, 5 days a week.

It has been done, we taught ourselves English this way. At the end of the day, I think there is a "best" approach to learning a language and everyone needs to find its own and practice it.

Antonio

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