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Originally Posted by takikura
I agree with your opinion on immersive teaching method. The problem is only a limited type of people can afford it. My friend, teaching English in a Japanese university, used to tell me that we should read more than 10,000 pages of English text to become decently proficient with this language. I have done that and I believe my written English is not so bad. But I speak broken English and have enormous difficulty of understanding films in English without helps of subtitles. I do not dream of attaining a decent speaking capability of the German language. My brain is too old and jammed to process all these word changes real time. But I hope that I can some day achieve skills of reading German books relatively fast with a help of a good reader and writing decent sets of mail and letters in this language.
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If you want to speak a foreign language ... find an online buddy, speak!
... that's the faster and only way to learn a foreign language, talking by experience. Skype is a good tool and there are tons of free websites or forum where you can engage other users and practice speaking that foreign language. You can also teach yours as well.
After 11 years in school, I was not able to speak fluent English until just a few years ago when I was relocated to USA because my job. My English is not perfect, but I think and speak in English.
Reading is a different matter. If your focus is being able to read and write properly then grab a nice book on that language, a dictionary, another book with rules of that foreign language and have some fun.