“how can you help a normal adult learn a new language quickly, easily and effectively?
Now this is a really, really important question in today’s world.
We have massive challenges with environment. We have massive challenges with social dislocation, with wars, all sorts of things going on and if we can’t communication we’re really going to have difficulty solving these problems. So we need to be able to speak each other’s languages, this is really really important.
The question is how you do that.
Well it’s actually really easy.
You look around for people who can already do it, you look for situations where it’s already working, and then you identify the principles and apply them.
It’s called modelling and I’ve been looking at language learning and modelling language learning for about fifteen to twenty years now.
And my conclusion, my observation from this is
is that any adult can learn a second language to fluency
inside six months.
Now when I say this, most people think I’m crazy, that this is not possible.
So let me remind everybody of the history of human progress, it’s all about expanding our limits.”
