I am indeed familiar with LingQ, although I haven’t had the time to get into it in depth. As it is now, most of my study takes place in conventionally analog resources. I may take a closer look at the LingQ system around December or January.

Interesting post! I had not heard of Sir Richard Burton before. Both he and you seem to share many of the same non-conventional notions on language learning as we do at LingQ. I was wondering if you are aware of our site and whether you have ever had the opportunity to take a look at it.

We would love to have you review our site on your blog. I think it could be very beneficial for your readers and students to supplement what they are doing with LingQ.

I invite you to come and look around, http://www.lingq.com. We offer free, as well as paid, membership levels. If you are interested in experimenting with our tutoring services at all, please just email me and I can set that up for you.

Keep up the good work on your blog!

I prefer to learn a lot of vocabulary than study grammar ’cause in most cases, the grammar construction is easy to understand without studying it, if you know a lot of vocabs.
I was born in Spain (Catalan and Spanish as a native languages). In primary school I was very bad in grammar studies of my own language, although I used to talk in these languages and I can construct a sentence and understand a lot of situations (when I was a child). Also seems to happen with english lessons (at primary school), I was pretty bad in grammar lessons… but while I was growing, I used to read some newspapers, and computer science websites in english and learning some vocabulary every day. Without spending my money with english academies, I think that I can understand a lot of situations right now.
Well.. but I’m studying grammar for JLPT3 ’cause it’s extremely concrete, is not about to know japanese, is about what they are going to ask me to fail the answer.

Well.. nice blog, I’m reading it for a weeks but it’s my first comment