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Many of us learned the latter way. I am convinced that I would have learned the languages I know if I had been in a communicative class, but I think I would have learned faster because the activities I provided for myself would have been provided in the classroom. More people might learn a language, too, because not too many people are motivated to throw themselves into a situation where they are linguistically one down, i.e. not speaking the group’s dominant language, nor do they have the obsession to constantly talk to themselves in the TL (I remember being a busboy and trying to repeat everything I overheard in the TL). Pat Barrett ====================== 96/11 From-> Irene Moon
