I am a supporter of the communicative method. Today it is the most popular method of learning foreign languages. For the early 70's it was a real breakthrough, because the main purpose of this method – to teach people to interact with other people in the target language, which involves all forms of communication: speech, writing (both reading and writing skills), the ability to listen and understand what was said by the interlocutor. This is easiest to achieve by teaching a person in natural conditions-natural, first of all, from the point of view of common sense.
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Yeah, it seems like common sense to me, but it's funny how I had no idea how to begin just using the language before I actually tried a bunch of other things first that felt less natural. I think we are not used to doing things in an intuitive way, we always make things more complicated in society and so language learning tends to follow that pattern.