Just kidding. I only wrote that to get you to read this thread. I don't really think that.
I realize that maybe this forum, of all places, is the wrong place to be asking this (as I know most of us are rabid SRS junkies...), but I just have a simple question. What do you think of the SRS-less language learning that people like Steve Kaufmann have done? I've read in several places about people having success like that. I'm not talking about LinQ or whatever, but the kind of learning where you just read and look up words as you go along, occasionally doing writing practice, and just generally not SRSing sentences? I know the guy in the following link (that Khatz mentioned once) talks about that: http://tesl-ej.org/ej45/tesl-ej.ej45.fr1.pdf
I'm primarily interested in this because, although I like the AJATT/SRS style of learning, I think I could expose myself to even more Japanese following this kind of strategy (I think in such a case I could say that I am truly "following the fun" All The Time). What do you think of this? Pros? Cons?
I realize that maybe this forum, of all places, is the wrong place to be asking this (as I know most of us are rabid SRS junkies...), but I just have a simple question. What do you think of the SRS-less language learning that people like Steve Kaufmann have done? I've read in several places about people having success like that. I'm not talking about LinQ or whatever, but the kind of learning where you just read and look up words as you go along, occasionally doing writing practice, and just generally not SRSing sentences? I know the guy in the following link (that Khatz mentioned once) talks about that: http://tesl-ej.org/ej45/tesl-ej.ej45.fr1.pdf
I'm primarily interested in this because, although I like the AJATT/SRS style of learning, I think I could expose myself to even more Japanese following this kind of strategy (I think in such a case I could say that I am truly "following the fun" All The Time). What do you think of this? Pros? Cons?