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ROI in learning a foreign language is low, unless it is English. But if you must, I would say the next best thing to immersive instruction would be to watch spanish hulu as an aid to learning. You'd get real conversions at conversational speeds.
Disclaimer: I won't listen to the podcast, because I am boycotting any medium that is not text.
Language learning may have extremely low ROI in general but extremely high in special cases. E.g. I would not be surprised by finding that people learning the language of the foreign country they live in increases their subjective wellbeing. Or if people want to work as translators. Or they are investors and are specialising in a region not speaking English as their main language.
This almost seems like a fallacy. I might call it "homogenity bias" or "mistaking the average for the whole" just to find out that is already known under a different name and well documented.
Good news! Freakonomics is, along with Econtalk and patio11, one of the rare podcasts which (if you had click through) you can see provides transcripts for most/all of all their podcasts.
Well fuck me. I saw the streaming bar and closed the tab, so entirely my fault.
Thank you for notifying.