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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4320 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes  Studies: German | Message 33 of 36 28 December 2014 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | ||
I have to say that's not so obvious from your writing. Perhaps Input really does work! 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4077 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 34 of 36 28 December 2014 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Input is also less expensive than a tutour and moving to the country, plus taking a lot
of classes. I am not sure what the financial situation of everyone is, but I would think that if one has more money they have more options to spend for those types of methods than someone who cannot afford it and must use free methods, viz. input. Instead of creating my own immersive environment by input and my own method of using the languages daily, I could probably decide to travel to Spain or Argentina for Spanish, to the Netherlands, and whereever, find accommodation for the entire stay, hire a tutour, spend one of two year abroad with solely the aim of improving my languages, and then also take some classes there. The problem is that, at the end, I probably would have to sell my car, house, and declare bankruptcy. Edited by 1e4e6 on 28 December 2014 at 8:47pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6384 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 35 of 36 28 December 2014 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Many people who say they can't afford something could literally afford it, they just can't justify spending the money. I can't justify paying the price of a good book for a conversation I won't even enjoy.
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| ijsn Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 3531 days ago 12 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 36 of 36 03 January 2015 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is an extremelly interesting thread. I studied English in schools for approximately 5
years and I think most of my English came from them. But then, i'm not fluent yet... I'm trying to improve in order to speak at a C1 level, but that is really difficult. It's hard to believe that i can achieve that only with listening, but it's the only thing that i do, because i'm too lazy to do anything else. But then, when i read stuff like Mairo's post and this link (http://successfulenglish.com/2010/04/frustration-to-success -how-he-did-it/), i start to believe that it is indeed possible. I got in touch with the guy described in the article and he confirmed that he learned only with comprehensible input. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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