What's the correspondence between learning to ride a bike and learning a language? Let me share with you how I have learned languages and how I have learned to ride my bike. So what's the connection between learning to ride a bike and learning a language? Strange question, I know, but let's get the ball rolling, and I'll give you a piece of advice about how it can help you learn languages more deeply. I want you to remember how you learned to ride a bike. Go ahead and close your eyes. Get comfortable and remember how you learned to ride a bike. Remember waking up early in the morning and going to bicycle school? Remember carrying all your heavy bicycle textbooks? Remember all the bicycle rules you wrote over and over in your notebook at school? And the tests. Remember studying for all those bicycle tests? You don't remember, do you? Well, me neither. No one learns how to ride a bike by going to school. And no one learns how to ride a bike by studying. You learn to ride a bike by doing. You fall and you try again. And each time you fall, you get a little better. Your balance improves, and day by day, you become more confident and more successful, until one day riding a bike becomes easy. You learn by doing, and languages are the same way. If you want to become a better speaker, you need to speak more. And if you want to become a better listener, you need to listen more. This is something that even many teachers don't know. They want you to learn by memorizing. They want you to learn by studying grammar rules. Successful learners know that you don't become fluent by studying. You become fluent by doing.