Joe asks: "I study so much, I worry that I'm being inefficient."

Episode Summary:

• It's important to make a distinction between "study" and "practice"
• What do you spend your time doing? There's a risk you are planted firmly in study mode, in which case wasting your time is a danger...
• There's only so much new information your brain can take in in one day, so in that sense, you certainly do get diminishing returns after a certain amount of "study"
• However, you can never spend too much time in the company of the language
• I would suggest you experiment with spending no more than one hour a day on focused study, and instead try to consume French with real activities: speaking with people, reading books, watching TV
• Create an immersion environment for yourself, based on the things you enjoy the most
• You won't get the same sense of daily progress, but you'll be priming yourself for a transformation in your French a

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