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Have you learned a language doing nothing?
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leosmith
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30 October 2011 at 8:59am | IP Logged

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prz_ wrote:

Have you ever learned a language with very little or absolutely no effort (Let's exclude the sitatuion when you've learned languages while being abroad)?
I'm asking because I've hit upon the idea to learn Croatian as I simply adore this language. The problem is that I haven't really got time to learn another language full-time, so... I just want to translate news and lyrics (especially the second one - I'm in love with Croatian music).

So, tell me, If you've learned language at some level by doing nothing or almost nothing.

What an intriguing title for a thread! My first reaction was to dismiss this as another example of these crazy ideas that pop up here from time to time. But really I think it's a question of bad wording. What exactly is doing nothing? Nobody believes that you can learn a language without some effort. If I can be presumptuous, I think the OP means learning a language in a totally passive manner, without deliberate study.

Well, that is not exactly doing nothing. I imagine that if you lie on the couch half asleep listening to language tapes or CD's for a couple of hours a day, you might learn something. But if you don't make an effort to speak or think about the language, your results will be limited. In any case, the short answer is: no, you can't learn a language doing nothing.
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