Feedback is information about your reactions to learning and errors in a foreign language. You think you need feedback from a teacher to improve your foreign language knowledge. One thousand hours will amount to about 25 K US dollars. You write: 'Find a teacher I could trust to give me the feedback I needed to improve.' Few learners could afford a personal teacher since teachers with top-notch experience may charge up to $25 an hour.

You are frozen when Dutch people speak to you because you don't have enough time to translate the speech into the native language to digest it. It uses cross-translation and doesn't teach learners how to think in a foreign language. ❌ I still froze when people spoke Dutch to me.ĭuolingo is a traditional method of learning a foreign language. It is a wrong approach because remembering information about the new language does not result in fluency. However, when you speak, remembering information and cross-translating are two prolonged processes, and they do not allow you to produce more than two words each second to communicate fluently.Īll conventional methods and language learning apps, including the most popular Duolingo and Busuu, are based on misconceptions that learners will remember words and phrases or grammar explanations and be able to use this information to produce fluent speech in the target language. When you are reading or writing in a new language, you recall information about Dutch that you memorized and cross-translate in your head to digest what you read or write. Currently, you are still thinking in your native language. To speak Dutch fluently, you should think in Dutch.

❌ I still couldn't have real conversations. Let me respond to Ryan's flip side statements:

Still, I decided to elaborate on this topic again after reading Ryan Alexander Wiens's post 'Why I quit Duolingo after a thousand days.'. I published the article about Duolingo six years ago ( ).

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