There is a definite advantage in learning a language through what VLLC calls, the Mother Tongue method! VLLC has been proving its success for 30 years and have thousands of success stories of students who have gained the ability to communicate in a foreign language after learning this way. I recently read an article by Judith Thurman who wrote about her experience with a person who is multi-lingual and speaks over 30 languages. I have included an excerpt below about her observation of how this person experienced language.
Thurman writes "He spent several days raptly eavesdropping on native speakers in markets and cafés and on long bus rides, bathing in the warm sea of their voices. If we took a taxi to some church or ruin, he would ride shotgun and ask the driver to teach him a few common foreign phrases, or to tell him a joke. He didn’t record these encounters, but in the next taxi or shop he would use the new phrases to start a conversation. Hyperpolyglots, Erard writes, exhibit an imperative “will to plasticity,” by which he means plasticity of the brain. But I was seeing plasticity of a different sort, which I myself had once possessed. In my early twenties, I had learned two languages simultaneously, the first by “sleeping with my dictionary,” as the French put it, and the other by drinking a lot of wine and being willing to make a fool of myself jabbering at strangers. With age, I had lost my gift for abandon. That had been my problem with Vietnamese. You have to inhabit a language, not only speak it, and fluency requires some dramatic flair.
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