The Power of Immersion: Best Technique or Completely Overrated?
Before the internet, people said the best way to learn a language was to move to a country. Now, the talk of the town is what’s called “virtual immersion.”
Virtual immersion is all about creating an environment at home where pretty much everything you do is in your target language. The goal is to live as if you were in the country where your language is spoken, even though that’s not actually the case.
I did something similar to master English 15 years ago and it worked wonders so why am I here telling you immersion is overrated?
I used to be an average French dude who couldn’t speak English. In high school, I met a guy whose English accent and ease with the language blew my mind.
When I asked him how he had done, he told me about a simple system he had used years prior: watch TV series with French subtitles for a while, switch to English subtitles for a while longer, and then take them off. His process had taken him 3 years.
I went all in and watched over 700 hours worth of TV series in the following year. The first two months, I used French subtitles. I switched to English ones for about 3 months and took them off.
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