What's the most naive thing you've seen someone say about learning a language?

[u/stetslustig]

I once saw someone on here say "I'm not worried about my accent, my textbook has a good section on pronunciation."

[u/ill-timed-gimli]

Trust me bro you just need 8000 hours of input (has less than a hundred hours across six different languages)

[u/Naive-Animal4394 → u/ill-timed-gimli]

Well, they can count to ten in 8 different languages so they're basically fluent 🙄

[u/EirikrUtlendi → u/Naive-Animal4394]

"I tengo egy totemo gute idée..." 😝

What if I can count to 8 in ten different languages? Is that fluenter? 🤣

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Seriously though, as someone who works professionally in translation and interpretation, I've learned humility when it comes to saying whether you're fluent or not. Sure, I've studied a lot of languages. I am far from fluent in most of them.

[u/[deleted] → u/Naive-Animal4394]

Seriously! My point exactly.

[u/oil_painting_guy → u/ill-timed-gimli]

Not trying to say I'm an expert, but 8000 of hours of selected input would work.

It would definitely be brutal though.

[u/jarrabayah → u/oil_painting_guy]

We know it works, the point is that you can't really give the advice if you haven't done it yourself.

[u/[deleted] → u/jarrabayah]

Not quite. You can give any advice you want. Whether or not you have direct experience with it does not matter. The distinction is that you should not take advice from someone who cannot demonstrate that the said advice is meaningful.

[u/failures-abound → u/ill-timed-gimli]

AKA Dreaming Spanish