The Stages and Milestones of Learning a Language
There are countless of different ways in which language can be learned. There is the high school class, the private tutiona, and the crash courses. There is the “I’m going on vacation for a week, so I’m going to buy a dictionary and go for it!” approach. There is of course, the passive aggressive Duolingo owl, and his daily five minute lessons. There is also the newborn baby method, in which a completely confused and deeply curious being is thrust into a whole new world. My language learning experience was all and none of these. My lingual journal was, and continues to be, overwhelming, evolving, challenging and exciting. These are the stages that I experienced as I was plopped into a Marathi and Hindi speaking city armed with nothing but a little pink dictionary. My method is one called, “The 15-year-old baby with a book.” Stage One; my dad, ever the travel and language enthusiast, jumped onto Amazon the second AFS India excepted me to order every book he could f