The Intoxicating Fear of Language Immersion

[Francis Hult]

The Atlantic



The Intoxicating Fear Of Language Immersion



If you are studying a language, you eventually reach a point where learning the rules--divorced from any applicable environment, excised from hot, random reality--becomes insufficient. It is one thing for me to run through the conjugations of the verb vouloir. But to, in the moment, say "Ils ont voulu plus d'argent" without thinking, without conjugating, without searching, is something else. It's the space between theory and practice, between diagramming a safety blitz and seeing whether you actually like hitting and being hit.



Full story:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-intoxicating-fear-of-language-immersion/277635/
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