What’s the single best way to learn a language? If I had to choose, I’d say immersion. While it’s probably not the best “for everyone,” I do believe it’s the best choice for many. After all, picking up your first language naturally actually works a lot like immersion does.
The best situation to be in to learn a language is to:
(1) Be in a country where it is widely spoken as the first language.
(2) While you’re there, go to a school where the primary mode of teaching is the target language.
Sometimes, just being in a country isn’t enough. For many people, they have to be forced to pick up the language in a sort of “learn or perish” situation and being in a school is exactly that. Unless you pick up the language quickly, you won’t only be isolated from your fellow students, you won’t understand lectures, can’t read books and generally can’t function. Do or die tends to bring out the best in most students.
If, in case, that perfect world scenario isn’t available, I sincerely believe you can’t go wrong with a software for language learning. With their combination of conventional and non-traditional lessons, multimedia features, interactive practice and simulated immersion, they offer a language education that’s hard to find among other study-based options.
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