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Back to the language question.... after getting out (a long time after getting out) I attended the Summer Institute of Liquistics courses for a couple of semesters. What an eye opener this was! Dr. Pike ( the founder of a linguistic system called Tagmemics) does a one hour demo where he uses a student from somewhere in the world. The student speaks his native language (which Dr. Pike doesn't know) and Dr. Pike speaks a Indian language from Mexico (which they don't know). In an hour he has the basic grammar of the language. About 100 or so words and knows what area of the world and probably what language family it belongs to.

He learned more in an hour than I did in a year with the Bru. It was impressive.

All that to say this. There is a book call The LAMP Method by Brewster and Brewster. It is a method for learning a foreign language on your own in an immersion fashion yet still picking up the grammar etc. It is a very good book to put in your ruck. I wish that SF Command would pick it up for distribution. It would really help a lot.

So for all of you - just starting through or AD now. I would recommend it - you will learn a lot about learning languages from this little book.