4. FIND OPPORTUNITIES FOR PASSIVE EXPOSURE.
Give yourself some time to just absorb the language in the atmosphere without concentrating or worrying about whether you understand or not. Put on the radio in the target language while you’re doing other tasks. Watch movies with subtitles. Read a book in the target language out loud without trying to understand the text. Our language-learning brains are brilliant pattern recognizers, and there are patterns in language that we can absorb through simple exposure.
