Are You Afraid of Making Mistakes?

More and more people are going to be learning outside the classroom because there's so many more resources available now. One thing that I've learned is you have to make mistakes. You have to not understand very well what you're reading and listening to. And you have to put yourself in a position where you don't understand and you can't find the words. All of this is essential to the learning process. Those things which in the classroom, you're afraid of getting poor marks for doing. Those are precisely the things that you have to do when you're an independent learner. That attitude is far more important than any book, any grammar book, any stack of flashcards or any other