Being self-taught is awesome. It is awesome. I don't have to memorize any words only because my teacher told me to do this. The best thing about learning this way is the freedom of choice and the independence. I study when I feel like doing this. I am able to choose the words I'd like to know. I don't have to grind some words chosen by my teacher, which are often useless, like " stale bread" and suchlike. Who needs that? I adore learning languages, but I like to do this my way. Everyone has his own way of learning. And teachers carry on imposing us often the way of learning the school approves of. By the way, I am of the opinion, that the school should bring in e-learning. Using programs such as Anki and suchlike is the best way of acquiring new words. To summarize, I don't like picking up languages in the classes and I don't like using out-of-date ways of learning them.