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A lot of very productive learners and teachers are advocating for learning through all-talk, all-target language, in-person language exchange sessions, and complimenting that with pleasure reading in the target language. So 0% textbook, and if a course, a course that as closely as possible imitates a group conversation.

So 100% live conversation, with a rising percentage of reading material after achieving some small degree of fluency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Xj3rGu1T0

I know it's not a great suggestion during the time of covid. I wonder if the online language exchange apps provide for different forms of interaction? The ability to show a picture or flip through a magazine or picture-book simultaneously with mouse pointer visibility on both sides would be nice.



Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts and info. Being multi-lingual myself, I certainly understand the concept of language immersion (and, actually, most recently have tried it partially with Mandarin, in the form of watching Chinese movies, mostly with subtitles). However, I doubt that it is possible to learn correct grammar from language immersion (it's probably not that important for languages like Mandarin, which, as I understand, are very lightweight in terms of grammar; but, for the rest ...).




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