I am floored by the positive comments Mr Ferriss continues to get on his blog… the latest asks whether he has considered patenting his process and another told him Chomsky would be so proud of him.

The downside of blogging is that unless someone comments and tells you otherwise, you live with the illusion that what you say is undeniably brilliant (and this gent has enough idle and idol worshippers to let it go to his head).

It is mindsets such as his which bring us students and parents of students who don’t understand the complexity/intricacy of language learning, the nuance, the importance of scaffolding as you so eloquently state here.

My fave (I get one of these requests monthly): “Surely they must be a CD-Rom program or an audio CD I could listen to in my car where I could learn all this stuff? I mean,” continues the frustrated and hyper-busy monolinguist, “How hard could learning a language really be?”

Thanks for posting Doug!