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When academic language fails in real life

I learned French perfectly in school but after living in Paris for two months I realize I sound like a textbook robot and nobody wants to talk to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Formal learning divorced from living context produces hollow competence that cannot bridge human connection.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Second language acquisition theory?”

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