Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

From Fluency to Mastery
Strive toward fluency and beyond by coming back to the academic
aspects better suited to this part of the language learning process.
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n chapters 5 and 6, I described how to get off to a great start in another
language. Once you have momentum, you’re off and running. It’s not
necessarily about having a “perfect” approach, but continuing with a
learning strategy that encourages you to improve and helps you make those
improvements.
Your own approach may differ from my suggestions, and people, of
course, learn in very different ways. In my experience, though, applying the
methods of chapter 5 have helped me and many others get into languages
and achieve a basic conversational level in a language much more quickly
than through almost any other approach.
The first step is the most important one. There’s no point discussing
perfecting your language skills before you have definitely started using
them. So many language learning approaches are so hung up on perfection
that they simply overlook those first steps, and it’s why so many people
ultimately get nowhere.
But the truth is it’s very hard to reach fluency or beyond in a second
language through exposure and usage alone, which I have focused on up to
now. It’s possible and it does happen that people simply live the language
and are later almost as good as a native speaker. The problem is that this is a
very slow method.
Using the tactics we’ve learned so far, for instance, the person I’m
speaking to will need to adjust to my level, speak slowly and clearly, and
limit the kinds of things he or she can talk to me about. I will naturally
misspeak, but I can indeed talk spontaneously with the person even within
these limitations.
But don’t let this hold you back, because it’s time to move on! We can
now strive toward B2 fluency and onward to C2 mastery, including
improving our writing and reading skills.

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