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Learning a language at school often entails the following: being required to sit in an oft-noisy room filled with other pupils who, mostly, do not want to be there anymore than you do; listening to the often very unengaging teaching of teachers who have been doing the job for a significant amount of time and have, thus, slowly begun hating both the subject they teach and the students; and doing the work I mentioned at the beginning of this article. Is it really surprising, therefore, that most students do not thrive in such an environment and believe themselves to be incapable of learning a language?

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Writing notes is common when learning a language.
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The language classes — and I am very hesitant to calling them that — most pupils are exposed to, thus, generally have the effect of discouraging them rather than encouraging them to learn a language and enjoy doing so. Being required to take what we called vocabulary tests wherein you are asked to recall the one German translation of an English word you had previously learnt and not getting any points when you provide a different — but still correct — translation of said word is also a matter which undoubtedly affects students’ will to learn a language significantly.

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Please remember this list of endings out of context, it will be on a test tomorrow!source
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As I have frequently made clear on this website, I am a strong advocate of reading things and this is especially true when it comes to acquiring a second-language. It has not always been this way, as I used to be an advocate of the traditional grammar-translation method of learning a language, which — as the name implies — encompasses the things I now quite vehemently advocate against doing when learning a language. The reason for my changing my mind is the fact that all those languages which, I attempted to learn using this method, I have never been able to actually learn. As soon as I began following a different school of language learning — the title of this section — I began to see much more rapid improvements in my reading and even composition ability. But what do ex- and intensive reading entail? And what is the often-called natural method of learning a language?

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The Italian version of Athenaze is an attempt at an Ørberg-style natural language learning method for Ancient Greek.