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When self-study creates surface-level fluency

I taught myself Korean for three years through apps but realized I cannot have a real conversation about anything that matters to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Isolated learning produces technical competence without the depth necessary for meaningful human connection and expression.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Second language acquisition theory?”

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