There is no best method in general, but there is a best method for each particular learner, and finding it is the work.

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• Cannot both be true

  Speaking is learned only by speaking a lot; no amount of study substitutes for it.

  Lampariello says there is no best method in general, only a best method for each particular learner. Lewis makes exactly the universal claim Lampariello denies is available — that speaking is the one thing that works, for everyone. A claim that no universal answer exists and a universal answer cannot both stand.

Shared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.

• There is no best or fastest way to learn a language; the question has no general answer. LLLuca Lampariello9 Sept 2020
• Anyone can learn a language, and what separates those who do is method rather than talent. LMLýdia Machováby 14 Jun 2024
• A method you hate will end in burnout however well it works for other people, so it should be abandoned rather than endured. LLLuca Lampariello9 Sept 2020
• Learning a language in a hurry and learning one by slow patient habit are both legitimate; neither refutes the other. SYScott H. Young2 Sept 2014
• People persist with the method they enjoy rather than the one that is supposed to be best, and that is what decides the outcome. LLLuca Lampariello9 Sept 2020

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