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“Let me hasten to point out that Indonesian is the easiest language in the world-no hedging, no "almost," no "among the easiest." In my experience, Indonesian is the easiest. The grammar is minimal, regular, and simple.”
― Barry Farber, How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own

“Your fragments of knowledge will lead to competence. Your competence will lead to fluency. Your fluency will intensify to higher and higher levels of fluency. The best attitude, however, is that your attempt to master the foreign language, should remain perpetually unfinished business. You'll succeed if you make sure you never go to bed knowing no more of your target language than you did when you woke up!”
― Barry Farber, How to Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own