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Drawn from what Scott H. Young said
language learning How an adult picks up a second language: input against speaking practice, immersion against slow habit, and whether a teacher can do it for you.
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Canadian writer on learning who taught himself MIT's computer-science curriculum in a year
The no-English rule was largely what made the difference. Although there are many ways of learning a language, going for full immersion made it possible to learn what would have taken years in just a few months.
Where this was said
↗Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without Englishscotthyoung.com
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In tension with
Young credits a no-English rule with compressing years of learning into months, which is an output-first account of what did the work. Kaufmann credits comprehensible input and says classroom drills build nothing. Immersion supplies both at once, which is why the two men can point at the same three months and disagree about what caused the result.
Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.