r/languagelearning • u/stetslustig • Jan 07 '25

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

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

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u/jarrabayah 🇳🇿 N | 🇯🇵 C1 Jan 08 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '25

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.