Which relates to the concept of ‘listening a lot before trying to speak’. Again, why delay practice of a physical skill. Simply begin trying to copy the sounds. Your mouth needs to learn new movements and needs more practice than your ears and eyes. Practice does make perfect if you’re practicing to emulate the proper sounds.

I do agree with you that “how many words you’ve saved” is not that important, but I still think LingQ is a useful tool for going through text-based foreign language content.

But having seen the inside of many a school as learner, teacher, and instructional manager, many schools (especially in East Asia) still stick to archaic approaches to language learning (despite their utter lack of efficacy), methods that the students themselves have come to accept and expect which makes it hard to effect change even for those schools and teachers who know there is a better way.

I have been interested in design, aesthetics, and fine arts since I was a kid (likely a combination of nature and nurture as my mother is a professional artist). In fact, before I changed my major to linguistics my 3rd year of college, I was actually an Industrial Design major. While content is certainly king, I do think that design matters and have always strove to present my ideas in the best wrapper possible.

BTW, i always wonder why you always do a great job on designing? The l2mastery website is good-looking as well as the presentation.