Introduction

"We read so much about learning the language in three months or in six months," he says. "I suddenly realized, you know, as I was walking to a place that we had been to before, the first time we went there we were in a hurry." The sort of repetitive listening at Link is almost addictive, according to Drung's parable of the butcher. But by the same token we can listen to interesting things, not worried about what we understand, and just enjoy the language,.