In response to: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/how-immersion-helps-to-learn-a-new-language.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=learning%20language&st=cse
I found this puzzling in the fact that I myself have not seen these results haha. I have tried to learn Spanish in the past with no success at all. I have been working on Chinese but without practice you can not become fluent like a native speaker. I understand that the article is about the brain and how we process a language and whether it is better to be immersed or learn it in a classroom. I feel as though this has little impact on language learning.
Being immersed and being forced to speak the language in order to communicate makes a person think like a native in a more natural way rather than picturing conjugations and characters in their head then translating them to English or vise versa. I think it is an interesting read but without more data and a longer study I see no validity in believing that the learning a language in a classroom versus being immersed is the same.
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