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Repeat after me: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
These are the four language skills. You need all of them. Working on one will help with the others, but you need to practice all of them....

Ok, I won't argue about it any more, particularly since you start with the position that evidence doesn't matter. Also I envy your competence in Russian. My own progress has been pretty slow, but the...

If your research consists in having watched a tv show, I would offer that you might not be qualified to lecture me on the topic. Diane Larsen-Freeman has some books on language teaching methodology...

I'm curious how you know this. Did you do some sort of secretive research on this?

I'm not at all defending Rosetta Stone. I've never seen it demonstrated and it sounds like it is overpriced for...

Toddlers learn grammar ( not just separate words ) of their native language long before they begin to speak. Google for "head turn preference". And when they become older, they lose the ability to...

The point about first language acquisition is that it is done fairly quickly without (normally) relying on teaching grammar. By the time a child turns four he has mastered the majority of the grammar...

Did you acquire a thorough knowledge of English grammar when you were learning it as a child?

Of course in some sense you did, but you were unaware of it.

If you ever get a chance, read some of...