"Being open to learning how to speak a language fluently in a short period of time is not just a matter of which study materials you use or how much you learn, but is largely influenced by your attitude and motivation."

"One of the biggest revelations I made in learning a language was this idea of changing the want aspect to be a need."

"If you read this entire guide and listen to all of the interviews and come away with a sense of what is involved in learning a language, then I feel like nothing important will actually have been achieved. You need to apply these. I'm serious!"

"To be even more specific, I consider myself speaking fluently if I can get my point across while making very few mistakes (but still making mistakes), understand almost everything said to me in normal conversations, and follow natives speaking amongst one another when not talking about very specific topics that I generally wouldn't talk about in my native language."