Sonia asks: "What's the ideal language learning environment?"

Episode Summary:

• There's no such thing as the ideal, or best, language learning environment
• Learning to speak a language is heavily linked to affective factors - your feelings and how you react to the environment around you
• You can be very analytical, and conclude that complete immersion after a minimum of study is the "most efficient way"... but only if you're happy in that environment
• When I look back on my language learning story, my success has been heavily linked to my environment (e.g. Spanish friends in London vs isolation in Japan)
• The question I ask myself most when I learn languages now is: "How does this language make sense in the context of the lifestyle that I enjoy?" (e.g. In Hong Kong I didn't have great working conditions, so my language learning suffered as a result)
• If your French is still low-level, you still have a lot of work to do. Yo