2025-10-03
8 分钟Language learning is not complicated.
It is simple, straightforward.
It depends on the interest and attitude of the learner and the amount of time that the learner spends with the language.
I've said it before.
I saw an article the other day that there's been a catastrophic decline in language learning in the UK.
And I'll show you some of the points that they raise there.
And I know the same is true in Canada that Canadian government spends almost a billion dollars a year now.
promoting French with the aim of eventually making Canadians more bilingual.
And it has had no effect over more than a decade, two decades.
I saw that in Belgium,
French speaking Belgians tend not to learn Dutch even though they have it in school.
So the fact that people in Europe learn other languages,
they learn the languages that they are interested in learning.
There is an abundance of language content everywhere now,
unlike The situation 50 years ago when we only had one textbook and one teacher,
we have lots of language surrounding us.
The question is how do we convert this overload of information into language learning content?
We don't necessarily need trained language teachers.
We don't necessarily need teachers who have gone to school where they are told how to teach language,
where they are... told how to test students,