Stating the obvious
Learning a new language is time-consuming and you need to work hard. Everyone knows this. But now I'll add some qualification to this statement.
Counterexample
When kids start learning to speak and they're learning new words, they're not doing dedicated practice. They're not sitting down in front of books and reading - they don't even know how to read.
The reason they're able to learn is that the adults around them are teaching them by using the word in context. For example, every time they see a car, they might tell the kid "Hey, look at that CAR! That's a CAR.", so quite quickly, the kid learns what a car is.
This approach is remarkably effective. Why don't adults use it?
Well, it's obviously because adults aren't kids and they don't have someone around all the time to say, "Hey, look at that car." Or if they're learning German, "Hej, schau dir das Auto an". This begs the question, what if there was a way for adult learners to be immersed in a new language like this? Would they learn just as effectively?
Asynchronous language immersion
This technique is succinctly summarised by the term asynchronous language immersion: The learner is exposed to their target language regularly, without them having to make any effort. This needs to be combined with comprehensibility, that is, the learner needs some way of understanding what they're being told.
Asynchronous language immersion = Regular language exposure + Zero effort + Comprehensible input
A learner using this technique will easily and quickly acquire both new vocabulary, and familiarity with new sentence structures.
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