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Immersion can be helpful when learning as an adult, however in my experience it only works in a certain manner. I studied German in college. After a year of classes I had been taught a vocabulary that could get me around Germany, and all that could be taught of German grammar rules, That included things like subjunctive 1 (very advanced grammar).
Then I hopped on a plane and flew off to Germany and spent that summer bartending there. When I first stepped off the plane in Frankfurt, couldn't put a sentance together. I was like that the first day, I would be ready to say something, but when I started to speak, I couldn't come up with any words.
But during the first week there, listening to conversations in German, I could pick out words I hear in the classroom and from there begin to figure out what people were saying. After that I would start to figure out the words in between the words I recognized and my german vocabulary grew at an incredible pace.
In my experience I would say that immersion only works as an adult if you first learn a basic vocab and basic grammar. Then you can use the immersion experience as a way to fill in the blanks.
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