Acquiring Languages the Natural Way
This is a blog about my various language learning experiments. Currently I am only learning to speak Russian. My future bucket list includes: Ukrainian, Norwegian and Irish but I will wait until I'm at the B1 level in Russian ( The CEFR Levels ) before I seriously attempt those. I may dabble in Norwegian earlier since it's a Germanic language that won't cause confusion with my Russian and supposedly the easiest language for English speakers to learn. You can follow my progress on my other blog: Acquiring Russian The Natural Way The idea of 'acquiring' a language vs 'learning' comes from people like Stephen Krashen, Steve Kaufmann, and Jeff Brown. And methods like All Japanese All The Time, the Mass Immersion Approach, Refold.la and Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS). In short my approach is based comprehensible input, lots of exposure, not worrying about output (speaking) or grammar until later in the process. The core resourc