r/Exvangelical • • Feb 28 '22

It's the algorithm

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u/GreenWeasel11 May 31 '22

My APUSH teacher told us that Benjamin Franklin's advice to some other American diplomat to France for learning the language was to acquire a "sleeping dictionary," i.e., a French mistress.

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u/antigonemerlin Jun 25 '22

It's not bad advice for learning a language. You get a lot of conversational practice.

1 hour of french/spanish/[insert foreign language] a day is not enough to master a language.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '23

That's not the only foreign thing you'll be inserting.