I genuinely hate how English is becoming a sort of de facto global language. Just more cultural imperialism. But it's very nice to be able to communicate with comrades from around the world, it might be my favorite aspect of this site. So I do appreciate you all taking effort to think something in your native language, translate it in your head, then type it up in English. Hopefully in FALGSC we'll get our universal translators, too.

For real, learning languages is hard. I had 2 years of Spanish in high school and didn't do too well, something in my brain just didn't click. But maybe you need to use another language a lot to really learn it? I lived in Germany for just two months and by the end I found myself kinda picking up things.

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  • WhyEssEff [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    yeah immersive language learning is infinitely better. language is picked up through context. I did an 8 week immersive hebrew seminar basically and i became so much more proficient at it then my 11 years of attempting spanish class, and my dad is fluent in spanish :shrug-outta-hecks:

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      :this: so much.

      I'm now rusty af in everything except English due to less social interaction over the past two years because of COVID 19. And English isn't even my first language...