qeadz wrote:Cainntear wrote:That's not even sufficient for English, as it doesn't even cover the continuous aspect (is/was/will be doing). "I must" isn't common in English. There's very little information about conjugation for person/number in what you get back.
Johnny 5 need input.
Yeah. It's for people who like to sound smart. You can impress your friends at parties. It's also a great selling point. You could say things like "There was this guy on a bus and he sat next to this foreigner. Using these 12 sentences he learnt another language by the end of the bus ride".
Not Ferriss related but I once read this article on a guy who claimed to learn some obscure language in like 24 hours (basically on a plane ride) and then strolled through a forest chatting about views on life with some village elder, unaided by dictionaries or interpreters. I don't recall the details but anyway its like an arms race to see who can come up with the most obscure 'one weird trick' and promise results in fantastically small amounts of time.
Yes, I guess I'm a little biased against it
I'm so tempted to write a book called "how to learn a language incredibly slowly and still be occasionally mediocre"