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Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It, Gabriel Wyner (2014)
The ultimate rapid language-learning guide! For those who’ve despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick. At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently. He didn’t learn them in school -- who does? -- rather, he learned them in the past few years, working on his own and practicing on the subway, using simple techniques and free online resources. In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he’s discovered.
The greatest challenge to learning a foreign language is the challenge of memory; there are just too many words and too many rules. For every new word we learn, we seem to forget two old ones, and as a result, fluency can seem out of reach. Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head-on. With empathy for the language-challenged and abundant humor, Wyner deconstructs the learning process, revealing how to build a foreign language in your mind from the ground up.
This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.
Review
This book shows concretely how someone can learn vocabulary and basic structures in a new language using the system of flash cards. It gives knowledge of how a brain works and how it retains information, shares many interesting ideas and tips in an easy and light way, and explains in details how to build a deck of flash cards in order to learn new words and new sounds.
As someone who already masters more or less a few languages, I found this approach dizzying and tried applying it to a language I had no grasp on. What was perhaps the trickiest part, surprisingly, and took me a lot of time, was understanding how to build the flashcards so that they worked for me in the new version of the software used (a free open source one, dedicated to flash cards building, Anki). But once I managed Anki, and created the first cards, it worked a wonder to learn words I had no background for, to my great surprise! It even worked amazingly to help me learn pronunciation and to become used to the sounds of a language I didn't speak and had never heard before.
For learning new words, this technique works wonders. For more complex structures, I'd not be so certain.
For myself, after a while, it became really tiresome to build the flashcards, even more so the ones where I was supposed to enter fully-formed sentences in the language I was learning. The hours I spent doing that were many (maybe too many considering the learning progression ? I don't know yet). Another difficulty that showed up was with the amount of words that will pile up at first. But all in all, the work is there and the results can be surprising. For learning vocabulary.
It is clearly not enough as an approach to master a language and I am weary of the ideas that are promoted in the publisher's blurb. The author is in fact very much aware that it's a system that has its limitations, and he warns his readers of that quite well too.
This is again a great way to learn vocabulary and to get to work on specific structures of a language (such as word order, or how to use some prepositions etc) because it's all about repetitive learning. However, I feel like it hits its limit when it comes to mastering actual grammar, or let's say more complex forms. I'll however use the method to keep on learning more complex vocabulary in the languages I'm working on (such as synonyms, unusual verbs etc).
Is it an all-encompassing key to learning languages? nope, sorry there are no shortcuts for that (no matter what a book blurb claims!). You need time and consistent work (no "rapid language-learning guide" bullshit will be the thing ever). But is it a useful system for starting learning a language, or to grow your vocabulary ? I would wager it is !
