I am so glad to find another person, Corey Heller of Multilingual Living, who is loudly telling language learners and teachers that listening is the main element to foreign language learning.
If more people listened to their target language and immersed themselves in it, they’d be more apt to learn it well.
Read The #1 Language Ingredient For Raising Multilingual Children for more info on why listening is so key to foreign language mastery.