Refusing to speak English is what makes immersion work: it compresses years of language learning into months.

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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.

In the views onlanguage learningunder our view: Speaking starts before you are ready, and what stops people is embarrassment rather than vocabulary

What Scott H. Young actually said

Scott H. Young 2 Sept 2014 Canadian writer on learning who taught himself MIT's…

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.

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↗Looking Back at a Year (Almost) Without Englishscotthyoung.com

2 Sept 2014

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Learning a language happens through exposure to language you can mostly understand; classroom drills feel productive and build nothing.

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.

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