My recent interview with Sam, a polyglot, writer and a founder of the language learning blog Lingholic: http://www.lingholic.com/

Timelines:
0:11 Steve’s introduction by Lingholic.
1:44 You go through difficulties in learning but learning a language is not difficult.
3:09 Reasons why people struggle with languages.
4:28 The initial focus should be on comprehension.
5:03 Acquiring large vocabulary through listening and reading.
6:00 Not everyone can be a great figure skater, but anyone can be a great language learner.
8:04 Language learning got far easier than it was 50 years ago.
10:22 Have realistic expectations.
12:08 What makes a language difficult or easy?
14:07 Every language is a challenge.
14:39 School tries to protect the dominant position of a classroom.
18:06 Producing language too early and constant correcting are not useful.
19:29 Find your enjoyable way of learning and put it in the time.

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