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This crash course on comprehensible input made by the ppl over at dreamingspanish goes over all the problems of non-immersive language learning, and also why it continues to be perpetuated even though we know it doesn't work, and that comprehensible input is the only thing that does work.
I grew up in the US, and took years of foreign language classes in highschool and college, but we mostly just spoke english and tried to memorize vocab and grammar rules. Totally useless. Then after I tried to use notecards (anki) and apps... those also don't work.
Finally after many years, I discovered the comprehensible input method to learn spanish and mandarin, and finally am making progress.
I want to learn mandarin, any tips to start? Any app that uses this method?
Two channels I really like:
This also is helpful : https://comprehensibleinputwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
Of course non-immersive learning works, it's silly to say it doesn't. "Comprehensible input" is a pseudoscientific term for a theory of learning language; The teaching method maybe works better for some people, but the theory largely lacks evidence and at its core is impossible to prove.
Learn that way if you want to, but don't assert it's the only way to learn a language "that works", it obviously isn't. I know multiple fluent bi and trilingual speakers who simply did 90% of their learning at school.