In order to find a job, or keep yours, you have to be ahead of the competition. Anyone knows that fluency in a foreign language is a plus. It is not as hard as you think. In the beginning, you do not have to master French, for example, you have to be better at it than the other applicants.
Fifty years ago, when people had some spare time, they read. In Winter, when children came back home early (children were seldom allowed to stay outside after nightfall), instead of watching TV while waiting for the dinner, they read. In bed, they read.
I do not think that people liked more to read in the recent past than now, but they did not have too much choice, and education was highly encouraged. To schematize, I would say it was either to read, or to sleep.
Audiobooks are a great breakthrough that allows anyone with average hearing to enrich their knowledge.
People who had no time to read, or who do not like to, can listen to recorded novels while mowing the grass, or commuting. For many listeners it is a way to stop having to say: "No, I have not read it yet, but I will."
Of course, audiobooks have been welcome by all those who suffered, whatever the degree, of a bad sight.
When it comes to language learning, a new method presents the advantage of being as easy as watching TV or listening to audiobooks, and as rewarding as reading: bilingual audiobooks.
Audiobooks are easy to use -just put on your earphones. You learn, or refresh your knowledge, by listening to stories instead of toiling over grammar exercises. You learn the language the way it is used in genuine sentences, not the way it is used in order to illustrate a grammar point.
Bilingual audiobooks mimic the natural language learning method, the very method we all used at first, and that works.
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