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I like to capture what I come across, so here’s a short snippet from a YouTube video that features Stephen Krashen. In it, he condenses his message into less than 100 words. (I have slightly edited the segment.)

To summarize the last 50 years of research. We don’t acquire language by study, by hard work, by learning grammar rules, by having errors corrected, by memorizing vocabulary lists, by trying to speak all the time, and by writing. There’s only one way: understanding. If someone speaks to you in another language, and you understand what they’re saying, you acquire the language.