Most of us here are from the language-learning community. Last time, I asked you all about the best ways to learn a language. Now, I’d like to ask: what is the worst advice you’ve ever heard?

I’ll start.

A friend of mine who studied English at university told me not to read books in my target language because it would be too much context. Fortunately, I didn’t trust that person much anyway, so they only managed to hinder my progress for about half a year.

What is yours?