Opinions wanted on self-study courses

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Originally Posted by Glen

Reading is important, in fact so important that one might be tempted to neglect to spend an equal amount of time cultivating the listening skills as well. Many people can read it and write it better than they can speak it and understand it - and vice versa - so you might want to work on developing all four components.

Most of the time, what I hear is that you understand but cannot read, write and speak it.

Some then go onto reading a lot and then still cannot write it (!?&*%) and/or speak it.