What Steve Kaufmann thinks about education

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Canadian former diplomat and lumber trader who speaks twenty languages, most of them learned after the age of sixty. Co-founded the language-learning site LingQ in 2007 and has written and filmed about learning by listening and reading ever since.

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1. 13 Apr 2026

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

   Their wordsClassroom activities like grammar drills and vocabulary tests feel productive. You are doing something. But none of it builds the network your brain actually needs.

   ↗What Is Second Language Acquisition?blog.thelinguist.com 2nd of 3 in this piece