The Case Against Learning Foreign Language by Translation
3 min readDec 29, 2022
You’ll always be dependent on “confirmation”
Just as it is tempting to read a subtitle/transcript or write down a note, it is equally (if not more) tempting to rely on translation. The traditional approach is to learn your destination language through your home language. It seems like there should be no better way to learn a new language. However, always explaining…