I hear language learners say sometimes, “But the language I’m learning is so much harder!” We’re convinced that, when it comes to aural/oral language (leaving aside all script/reading), you can learn any language on earth equally well. That’s what Tom and Betty Sue Brewster taught us in their language acquisition course at Fuller back in the early 80’s. “It’s all mumbo-jumbo anyway.” They’re all equally hard. They’re all equally easy. Their rationale (and ours too) on that is simple: Around the world, most all babies learn to speak the BASICs of the language of their parents around the same time, without any big-time foreign language study curriculum. They mostly learn by listening — and mimicry. Of course, if you don’t want to take 2 years of listening before you sound like a two-year-old, you can speed things up quite a bit. For example, the GPA approach is really highly-respected these days:

https://growingparticipatorapproach.wordpress.com/

(Do you have a better website for learning the GPA approach? What are the best books on this approach?)

Of course, the precursor of this approach, in many ways, was LAMP, by Tom and Betty Sue Brewster. You can still order LAMP and the other Brewster books (Bonding, Language Learning is Communication, Community is My Language Classroom) John at… Search4Wisdom, PO Box 17367, LA, CA. 90017, or email him at jtierwat@earthlink.net . Read more about the LAMP method at…

http://www-01.sil.org/lingualinks/languagelearning/waystoapproachlanguagelearning/TheLAMPMethod.htm

We’ve written Betty Sue Brewster to see if she’d consider releasing LAMP as an ebook of some kind.

What’s YOUR most favorite book/resource of all time for language learning? Maybe you recommend a course? PILAT is no longer offered as a separate course at MTI, right? But you can still study language acquisition techniques at TRAIN International and similar locations, right?

http://traininternational.org/Acquire.html

Where is YOUR favorite course in language acquisition?

And what’s your favorite website to learn about all these options?

Thanks in advance for your help in gathering these resources.