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Do you mind sharing some links or references where I can see language hacking discussion?

It's not a new idea being discussed in language learning circles, and 99% of the recent online discussion about this is based off of this youtube video [1] of Stephen Krashen (a linguist) talking about comprehensible input in the 80s.

If I had to guess, most of the recent discussion has started again in the Japanese language learning community, as Japanese is a notoriously difficult language to acquire for anglophones.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUc_W3xE1w

You really think that grainy video from forty years ago is driving the discussion? It's unwatchable.

I realize how it sounds, but yes. It's the source of "comprehensible input" discussion that is cited again and again in online Japanese language learning circles if you dig through the rabbit hole of citations people make.

This guy who learned Japanese from anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG9kpqTRmU&t=681s

Learning Latin with Harry Potter latinus.

http://indwellinglanguage.com/reading-latin-extensively/

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