What’s the secret to learning a second language?

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…The challenge is to learn faster than you forget…not unlike dancing as fast as you can to stay in one place…

The various elements of language learning have long been disparate. Now intensive, integrated online programs may radically change the landscape. 

What’s the secret to learning a second language? follows the emergence of these programs, briefly discussing the following:  

LinguaStep, developed in 2006 by Loren Siebert…Rosetta Stone…University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language…Middlebury College, which runs the foremost language-immersion school in the country…use language in interaction with others, 2009 study led byAndrew Meltzoff at the University of Washington…online program, Middlebury Interactive Languages

Read What’s the secret to learning a second language? in Salon.com