Climb every mountain, challenge every myth

All sorts of myths, beliefs, truisms and what have you abound regarding the learning of a language.

• You need to speak from day 1
• Young children learn better than adults
• You study grammar and do exercises
• It will take lots of time and effort
• Some people are just gifted . . .

It may be that some of them have some truth, but certainly not all of them. They need to be tested out.

That's because when you believe that something is so, it becomes so. You create your own reality. Self-fulfilled prophesies.