I did language immersion with some success: I can speak Spanish quite ok. Planning a new immersion school.
But a major mistake is that people don't learn vocabulary, e.g. reading newspapers and books/websites and translate words, try to write your own sentences, and so on.
but I had a background: Latin, French and had Spanish in one year. Sometimes still watching Spanish movies and improving my vocabalary.
a mistake a lot of people on those immersion schools make is the paradigm that 'practice makes perfect', so just speaking with natives is enough. Where it is true in one sense, everybody forgets the equally important aspect of STUDYING a language.
I have to say that immersion schools have huge benefits: you create sentences in past time, present, future etc, and that is REALLY useful i.m.o regarding conversation and creating sentences. But don't just rely on them.
But a major mistake is that people don't learn vocabulary, e.g. reading newspapers and books/websites and translate words, try to write your own sentences, and so on.
but I had a background: Latin, French and had Spanish in one year. Sometimes still watching Spanish movies and improving my vocabalary.
a mistake a lot of people on those immersion schools make is the paradigm that 'practice makes perfect', so just speaking with natives is enough. Where it is true in one sense, everybody forgets the equally important aspect of STUDYING a language.
I have to say that immersion schools have huge benefits: you create sentences in past time, present, future etc, and that is REALLY useful i.m.o regarding conversation and creating sentences. But don't just rely on them.