By "crazy" I mean methods that are unusual, unexpected, and/or possibly a little extreme. Here are some examples that immediately come to mind:
- vermillon attempting to do six Assimil courses at once on HTLAL. I'm not sure if there were any conclusions as the log stopped around lesson 90 or so, and they also had to drop several of the courses along the way.
- victorhart attempting to learn Mandarin exclusively by watching TV. I think he was making progress with this, albeit slowly. Someone's masters thesis (I think? Don't remember) about trying this for French was posted on Reddit recently and they also had slow results.
- This blog about spending 1000 hours at AUA, learning Thai exclusively from input (no speaking/conversation).
The L-R method as originally intended would also fall into this bucket, though I'm not sure if there any logs of anyone actually attempting this (doing many long sessions as a complete beginner).
I'm starting this thread because I was thinking in the shower how one could try to marathon Pimsleur; a language with a 5-level course would have 150 half-hour lessons = 75 hours, and one could conceivably try to blitz through these back to back in some compressed time period (like a week or two). Has anyone ever tried anything like that?