![]() Just to give an example, a 2012 European Union Working Document has data showing that the share of students in school reaching the level of “independent user” in their first foreign language is 9% in England and 14% in France. The truth is that the rate of failure of traditional classroom-based language training, and the rate of self-taught learners who give up in the early stages of their language studies, is astronomical. ![]() You surely must have heard once, for example, the Chinese proverb that says that “A good beginning is half the journey.” It’s not for any reason that proverbs underlining the importance of a good beginning abound. Getting off the right foot, however, ends up predicting with striking accuracy whether somebody will be successful or not at learning a language. ![]() ![]() Beginning the study of a foreign language from scratch, with virtually no prior knowledge of that language, and the culture and history of the people who speak it, can be a daunting task. ![]()
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