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What is “comprehensible input“?  What’s just the right amount of it to be able to learn a language?  What’s the relative importance of vocabulary and grammar in making input comprehensible?  And why do I always forget the word for “forget“? I’ve spent the last month working almost exclusively on learning Classical Arabic.  It’s a tough language for a native English speaker. Obviously it has a different alphabet and little common vocabulary – I look back fondly to my Spanish-l