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290. Conversations with a Polyglot: What does it take to learn a language effectively?

The InFluency Podcast

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The Importance of Passive Consumption and Speaking Practice

I saw an interview that you did with the Turkish polyglot and the interview was conducted in eight languages. And I think that is that sense of ease is something that a lot of people are lacking because of the pressure of society or of themselves to not make mistakes. So this is why being able to retrieve while feeling the pressure from the other person is What they need to practice. Only passive consumption is not going to get you to fluency. It's not even enough to speak twice a week with an online tutor. You should go to the country or it'd be surrounded with a group of friends where the conversation is flying all over the place and multi directions and you're having to

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