How to Learn Any Language in 3 Months

Language learning need not be complicated.

Principles of cognitive neuroscience and time management can be applied to attain conversational fluency (here defined as 95%+ comprehension and 100% expressive abilities) in 1-3 months. Some background on my language obsession, from an earlier post on learning outside of classes:

From the academic environments of Princeton University (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian) and the Middlebury Language Schools (Japanese), to the disappointing results observed as a curriculum designer at Berlitz International (Japanese, English), I have sought for more than 10 years to answer a simple question: why do most language classes simply not work?

The best age to learn a second language

The best age to learn a foreign language is during infancy. At birth the human brain is wired to learn language, though not any particular language. A baby can just as easily learn English as Chinese, French as easily as Hopi. It is the baby's early experiences that modify the brain, influencing it to be able to learn one language as easily as another. This means the best time to learn a foreign language is during the first few weeks of the baby's life.......