“I took Spanish my whole life.”
That was what my niece said yesterday.
She came over to the house for lunch, I told her about my progress with Italian and we got on the subject of languages.
So is she fluent?
Does she read Don Quixote in the original?
Does she subscribe to her favorite bull fighters on Youtube?
Does she chat with the Mexicans while they prepare her tacos at the taco truck?
Not exactly.
Last summer, my dad had a Spanish/Dutch college kid working for him. Some times he’d come out to the house. And on one of these times my niece was there also.
So I pushed them to chat away in Spanish.
And they did.
For about five seconds.
So what’s going on?
Is my niece a bad student?
No way, Jose!
She’s attending the University of Virginia; a school I didn’t have the grades to get into.
Did she go to bad schools before college?
Again, no way. She went to two private schools; both were excellent.
12 years of Spanish…
1,000+ hours…
And who knows how much money down the drain….
To put this waste into perspective, she’s now studying to be a doctor. And in about half that time she will be qualified to cut open my chest, take out my heart, replace it with a baboon’s heart, and then sew me up and go play some golf.
But she can’t speak Spanish…
And it’s the same story all over the world.
So what’s going on?
I’ve got an idea.
Of course, the methods in most schools are rubbish, old, bad, broken, etc etc.
But I’ve got a new way to understand it.
A new theory that could help you immediately.
I’ll share it with you tomorrow.
But first, I’m curious, how many years did YOU study English in school?
Here’s a short, two-question survey:
https://forms.gle/oXkKYEk5NynXheRJ9
I’ll share the results with everyone tomorrow.