also they create couses with years (2 to 4) long courses
This seems to be a newer trend. The courses used to be much longer than that, to the order of 8 to 10 years.
Yeah, you read that right. Unless you took shortcuts (I had placement tests every once a while which let me skip several years), you'd spend a decade 'learning' English.
They were either creating the curriculum for the lowest common denominator, or the courses were a scam.
My brother skipped all the nonsense and learned enough English to have meaning conversations at age 8, playing Ultima Online. Then a couple of semesters after that helped with the vocabulary and pronunciation.
That, and movies, and setting the operating system to English, after some nagging on my part.
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This seems to be a newer trend. The courses used to be much longer than that, to the order of 8 to 10 years.
Yeah, you read that right. Unless you took shortcuts (I had placement tests every once a while which let me skip several years), you'd spend a decade 'learning' English.
They were either creating the curriculum for the lowest common denominator, or the courses were a scam.
My brother skipped all the nonsense and learned enough English to have meaning conversations at age 8, playing Ultima Online. Then a couple of semesters after that helped with the vocabulary and pronunciation.
That, and movies, and setting the operating system to English, after some nagging on my part.