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Old 06-01-2012, 02:40 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
But reading is a passive skill; the hard part about fluency is the active part where you produce the sentences yourself.

Why "but"? In my opinion this is one possible way of learning languages, to have the passive part - listening and reading - first and only later the active part - speaking. At least this resembles the way we learn our own mother tongue.
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