Lucas copied this back to the first person, and in this way, he had two strangers have a conversation with each other without knowing about it.
And soon he would start typing himself, because he had so many of these conversations that he figured out how the Russian conversation usually starts. What an ingenious method, right?
And then I met polyglots who always start by imitating sounds of the language, and others who always learn the 500 most frequent words of the language, and yet others who always start by reading about the grammar.
If I asked a hundred different polyglots, I heard a hundred different approaches to learning languages.
Everybody seems to have a unique way they learn a language, and yet we all come to the same result of speaking several languages fluently.
And as I was listening to these polyglots telling me about their methods, it suddenly dawned on me: the one thing we all have in common is that we simply found ways to enjoy the language-learning process.
All of these polyglots were talking about language learning as if it was great fun.
You should have seen their faces when they were showing me their colorful grammar charts and their carefully handmade flash cards, and their statistics about learning vocabulary using apps, or even how they love to cook based on recipes in a foreign language.
All of them use different methods, but they always make sure it's something that they personally enjoy.
I realized that this is actually how I learn languages myself.