Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It

by Gabriel Wyner

You don’t need to be advanced in a language to speak it or to play around with it. You can, instead, know just a handful of words and use them exactly as a child would—as a tool for interacting with the world in a spirit of play and fun. Inevitably, as you speak, you will make mistakes and stumble around with your words. In those moments, you have a choice: you can try to endure the discomfort of feeling inadequate, or you can surrender to the idea that learning is an inherently silly and playful process of trial and error.