Hello, everyone.

So, who here consider that is a self-taught english student or consider that self-taught learning is a better way of acquiring knowledge than a formal course/class with classmates and a teacher/instructor with a straight teaching program?

I think that self-taught language studies have many advantages for sure but I agree that guidance (with a teacher/tutor or a person with more experience than you) complement the studies boosts the learning curve as well, so I learned a lot by myself from "not knowing to say simple greetings" to start to communicate a bit at least as I'm doing with this post (full of typos, okay but is better than nothing :p ).. 

I'll start to take some classes with my first teacher from Italki next week and I'm excited to discover what she thinks of my actual level of speaking and hope to get some tips to develop as soon as I can.. 

And you, do your learning come from self-taught too?