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Episode Summary:
• Immersion is always held up as the “holy grail” of language learning
• Definition: Spending all day every day in a native-level environment
It’s not all it’s cracked up to be
Survival bias is at play:
• Katzumoto: 10,000 hours of Japanese
• Gabriel Wyner: 8 weeks in Middlebury
• Your friend who went to China and was fluent in 3 months
• Immersion only works if you are able to go full-on enough, for long enough, and stay positive enough to make it to be successful… not practical for most people
As a study strategy, it leaves a lot to be desired:
• You don’t understand anything
• There’s no structure
• Not enjoyable
• My experiences with real immersion were not good
Paris, Japan, Egypt
• Immersion is much more effective when you can already hold you own
• Theory of “Comprehensible input“
• What’s the opportunity cost?
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