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Ella leyó el libro y sonrió.

She read the book and smiled.

People always learned this way

You’ve done this before
Ages 0 to 5
No rules, no tests, no flashcards. It worked.
Friends, every season
Seoul, the 2000s
A generation of K-pop idols learned English from one sitcom. Korean subtitles, then English, then none.
Words before lessons
Flanders, 2020
Belgian ten-year-olds know hundreds of English words before their first lesson. Games, videos, TV.
The book flood
Fiji, 1980
Classes given storybooks learned to read twice as fast as classes drilled in grammar. Listening and writing followed.
A novel at a time
Budapest, 1944
Kató Lomb began each of sixteen languages with a novel she couldn’t read yet. Russian, in a cellar, under siege.
English at sea
At sea, 1878
Joseph Conrad learned English at twenty-one, at sea. Then wrote Heart of Darkness in it.
It’s not too late
The Netherlands, 1978
Adults learning Dutch outpaced young children all year. Teenagers were fastest.
Ten meetings
Webb, 2007
Meet a word about ten times in context and it’s yours. Stories give you the ten.
Read while you listen
Webb & Chang, 2015
Hear a story while you read it and you learn more of its words — and keep them.
49 studies agree
Jeon & Day, 2016
Read a lot in a language and you get better at it. Every time it’s measured.
Eight months old
Saffran, Aslin & Newport, 1996
Babies pick the words out of a made-up language after two minutes of hearing it. Brains find the pattern.
Grammar comes second
Tomasello, 2003
Children build grammar from the sentences they hear. Nobody explains a rule to a two-year-old.
You’ve done this before
Ages 0 to 5
No rules, no tests, no flashcards. It worked.
Friends, every season
Seoul, the 2000s
A generation of K-pop idols learned English from one sitcom. Korean subtitles, then English, then none.
Words before lessons
Flanders, 2020
Belgian ten-year-olds know hundreds of English words before their first lesson. Games, videos, TV.
The book flood
Fiji, 1980
Classes given storybooks learned to read twice as fast as classes drilled in grammar. Listening and writing followed.
A novel at a time
Budapest, 1944
Kató Lomb began each of sixteen languages with a novel she couldn’t read yet. Russian, in a cellar, under siege.
English at sea
At sea, 1878
Joseph Conrad learned English at twenty-one, at sea. Then wrote Heart of Darkness in it.
It’s not too late
The Netherlands, 1978
Adults learning Dutch outpaced young children all year. Teenagers were fastest.
Ten meetings
Webb, 2007
Meet a word about ten times in context and it’s yours. Stories give you the ten.
Read while you listen
Webb & Chang, 2015
Hear a story while you read it and you learn more of its words — and keep them.
49 studies agree
Jeon & Day, 2016
Read a lot in a language and you get better at it. Every time it’s measured.
Eight months old
Saffran, Aslin & Newport, 1996
Babies pick the words out of a made-up language after two minutes of hearing it. Brains find the pattern.
Grammar comes second
Tomasello, 2003
Children build grammar from the sentences they hear. Nobody explains a rule to a two-year-old.
You’ve done this before
Ages 0 to 5
No rules, no tests, no flashcards. It worked.
Friends, every season
Seoul, the 2000s
A generation of K-pop idols learned English from one sitcom. Korean subtitles, then English, then none.
Words before lessons
Flanders, 2020
Belgian ten-year-olds know hundreds of English words before their first lesson. Games, videos, TV.
The book flood
Fiji, 1980
Classes given storybooks learned to read twice as fast as classes drilled in grammar. Listening and writing followed.
A novel at a time
Budapest, 1944
Kató Lomb began each of sixteen languages with a novel she couldn’t read yet. Russian, in a cellar, under siege.
English at sea
At sea, 1878
Joseph Conrad learned English at twenty-one, at sea. Then wrote Heart of Darkness in it.
It’s not too late
The Netherlands, 1978
Adults learning Dutch outpaced young children all year. Teenagers were fastest.
Ten meetings
Webb, 2007
Meet a word about ten times in context and it’s yours. Stories give you the ten.
Read while you listen
Webb & Chang, 2015
Hear a story while you read it and you learn more of its words — and keep them.
49 studies agree
Jeon & Day, 2016
Read a lot in a language and you get better at it. Every time it’s measured.
Eight months old
Saffran, Aslin & Newport, 1996
Babies pick the words out of a made-up language after two minutes of hearing it. Brains find the pattern.
Grammar comes second
Tomasello, 2003
Children build grammar from the sentences they hear. Nobody explains a rule to a two-year-old.