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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 nativelevel 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 fullon 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?


My name is Olly Richards, and on this channel I document my experiments in foreign language acquisition:

• Rapid language learning
• Writing Chinese characters
• Languages and travel...on location!
• Daily study routines
• Advanced level tactics

To see some of my previous experiments, why not try...

• Learn Thai in 14 Days:
   • Learn Thai Mission  

• Learn To Write Chinese (Traditional Characters)
   • Playlist  

• Daily Study Routines and Schedules
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