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

by Gabriel Wyner

Math can be hard for the same reason that languages can be hard. At some point, you miss a connection, and if no one goes back, takes you by the hand, and shows you that connection, then you’re suddenly doomed to memorize crappy formulae.

Learning grammar is an improvisatory dance at every level.

A film with English subtitles is basically an English storybook with some foreign language background noise. It’s useless for our needs.