I'm sure you think I'm crazy; right? Well I'm not crazy because already someone did this; Scott Young finished MIT computer science curriculum & started to learn 4 different languages in just 1 year! You can do it because he did it. Scott is amazing example of independent self-learning.
Who is Scott Young?
Scott H Young is busy. He’s dedicated to the question of “how to get more from life” — and as the author of a blog and four books on the subject, he’s certainly living up to his own goal of high productivity and efficiency. He’s also one of today’s leaders when it comes to exploring unconventional education. Unlike some other proponents of self-motivated and -designed education, he did the traditional college thing, but is now experimenting with other methods of learning. For example, he finished the “MIT Challenge”—teaching himself MIT’s entire four-year Computer Science curriculum through MIT OpenCourseWare— in 12 months. He announced a new project called "The year without English" The challenge is to live in four countries, learn four languages and attempt to speak zero English for an entire year. The four language are; Spanish, Portuguese, Chines and Korean. Isn't that so cool?
Can you get an MIT education for $2,000?
Over 12 months, he finished the entire 4-year MIT curriculum for computer science, without taking any classes. The MIT Challenge is now complete. He finished on September 26, 2012, just under 12 months after beginning October 1st, 2011. Click on. He wanted to learn computer science, but he didn't want to have to go back to school.
The Year Without English
Scott Young has started an amazing challenge that will take him to Spain, Brazil, Taiwan, and Korea. He'll be learning the language spoken in each of those 4 countries through total immersion. One rule: he can't use a single word of English.
Scott explains " Along this trip I’m going to be accompanied by my good friend, Vat Jaiswal. Vat is also going to be learning all four languages, under the same constraint of not speaking English, even though he has never learned foreign language as an adult.
Together, we want to show an honest record of what the process of full immersion is like. Excitement and burnout, triumphs and embarrassing slip ups, we want to share the experience of what it is like to abandon speaking the language you’re most comfortable with and attempt to learn something strange and new.
Scott's amazing talk in TEDx
Scott is amazing example of independent self-learning.
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