I found it interesting. There’s definitely something to it. I’ve found that I need to immerse myself in the target language for 1–2 years before I can start learning it, otherwise it’s just a tedious struggle with no progress, i.e., a waste of time and only frustration. This kind of immersion without a specific goal definitely creates a certain language foundation in the brain, but I’ve never found a way to learn a language this way. Who knows, maybe if I completely cut myself off from other languages for 2-3 years…
I’ve been reading more about the ALG method. Apparently people started speaking at ~900 hours threshold. That’s interesting. I never spent so much hours listening to the language before starting with “standard” learning process. I’m curious, if I ever start learning another language I’ll give it a try. Foreign languages learnt by traditional methods are quickly fading away from my memory once I stop the drills. This method claims to have long lasting retention, just like the mother tongue.
It would be interesting to get material to listen to German e.g. podcasts etc.
I also concluded that I haven’t been learning in a balanced way: just focussing on grammar/translation. Instead, I also need to directly speak from situation (instead of moving from English to German) as well as read/listen to German to acquire language instead of just learning it.