You need lots of comprehensible input. Productive skills are harder than receptive skills. You can't rely on memorization alone. Memorized material can give a false impression of your proficiency. Your brain analyzes language whether you know it or not.
People learning a language build up their own systems.
Predictable scripts aid comprehension. Sources The writer and researcher who has been most influential in promoting comprehension-driven is Stephen Krashen. Another writer who uses a lot of comprehension-driven language learning, whose works are included in the Language Learning bookshel, f is Greg Thomson. This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library , Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International , 1999.