Second language learners secret for speaking fluently

Based on empirical findings as well as my own observations, Successful English Learners (SELs) do indeed have some things in common.

First and perhaps foremost, SELs make their own opportunities by using English outside the classroom.

They try to use the English language every day. Although almost all SELs consider good instruction to be important, they don’t think that they can acquire a high or native level of English proficiency from the classroom alone.
Full article here By Shih-Fan Kao Second language learners

How to learn a second language

The main point is you have to take a lot of risks when you speak a language and guess, so your brain gets used trying to feel the language instead of just repeating it. However, I think this is half true. I know from Learning Polish, which I still am doing, I started with words, then sentences of simple construction. Then much latter I was able to start to guess, but only after I herd the language over and over and over, so the extrapolations were more on par with fill in the blank than any great leap of genius. So just know that you have to hear the language over and over 100,000s of times and varried constructions, before you get this so called ‘feel for the language’ everyone likes to boast about.

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