How to finally learn a language in 2026 (the 4 Cs method)

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  C is for Christmas.

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  It's the Christmas season.

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  But is C for Christmas?

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  No, it isn't.

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  Or it is in English.

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  But I do think C is for language learning and I will explain that to you later on.

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  But first of all, let's talk about C for Christmas.

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  Christmas is an English word.

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  From the word Christ, which is originally a Greek word.

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  Christos.

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  Christos therefore doesn't begin with a C.

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  And Christus means anointed one, which is the same word as the Messiah,

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  if you go through the different languages.

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  We know that when Christ lived, the dominant language in that part of the world was Aramaic,

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  but the official government language was largely Greek, and the apostles wrote in Greek.

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  So from these words,

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  we start to see the kinds of words that are used to express the concept of Christmas in different languages,

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  and they don't all begin with C, obviously.

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  But they express different concepts.

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  For example, in romance languages, we have words like Natale, Navidad,

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