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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
I, too, don't really believe that there are people who are incapable of learning a language. In fact, I worry that it's sometimes an excuse (yes, I plead guilty) for not trying hard enough. But could you please suggest a link to a description to the modern teaching methods you've mentioned, Harry? I'd like to find out how they differ from the way I "learned" Russian decades ago in college which was brutal and not very successful.
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I'm afraid I don't have any links to hand, but in the "old days", language teaching used to concentrate on grammar. These days, most good language classes teach by conversation and usage. The teacher will introduce a new grammatical construct by usage, and only after you've used it in speech, over and over again, will the teacher explain the grammar behind it, as a reinforcement to what you've learned. I certainly personally find it an enormously more effective method of learning.