You will wake up one day and be native fluent

Many tourists we've met in Mexico, when they learn just how long we've lived in Rosetta Stone V3 Mexico, invariably make the statement, "I bet you are now 100% fluent in Spanish", to which we were forced to reply, "Then you would lose that bet." I would ask these folks what they thought fluency meant. They would give all manner of replies with the basic idea conveyed that because we "lived in the language" and that somehow, perhaps as if by magic, we had managed to absorb the language like a sponge.Myth 1Living in a country in which your targeted language is predominately spoken guarantees nothing!There truly is this universal belief by every language student or tourist we've interviewed that they think there is some magic osmosis that occurs when you live in Mexico. You will wake up one day and be native fluent. You will be able to rattle off Spanish at the "Speed of light and a hearty Hi-Ho Silver" with the best of them. And, really with the false and misleading definition of what "language immersion" means posted all over the Internet, how can you blame the uninformed?Coming to the country where your targeted language is spoken will not necessarily work to give you fluency. Coming for a week, or forever, will not mysteriously empower you with fluency. One reason is one we've observed now for more than five years of living in this country.The vast majority of Gringo students Rosetta Stone French come with good intentions but one of the very first things they do is form friendships with their fellow Gringo students. They hang out together for their entire time in the country. Though they go through classes, afterwards, in their free time, they associate mostly among themselves. They hang out with those who are from their home country practically the entire time they are here. If "Immersion" was, and it is not, "living in the targeted language," then the typical language student who has spent a fortune to come here defeats the purpose, don't you think?The only way coming to Mexico to study Spanish will work for anyone is to have the highest degree of spoken fluency in Spanish before coming to study Spanish.Confused? Read onMyth 2Immersion in a foreign language means "living in the country in which the targeted language is spoken."Not so!Nor does immersion, when applied to second language acquisition, mean "grammar-translation courses taught in concentrated periods of time." (Winitz)What it means to be "Immersed" in any language other Rosetta Stone Portuguese than your own, for the purpose of second language acquisition, "refers to massive amounts of input with meaning, similar to the way we are exposed to and learn our first (native) language." (Winitz)To further expand on this correct definition, "True Immersion refers to massive amounts of Comprehensible Input, which is the exact manner in which we all learned our native language."

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