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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Constantly having someone trying to speak to you and communicate with you in a language with their main goal being you understand some amount of what they're saying and being able to speak back to them in the same language is a game changer. Only kids get that opportunity normally, or people living in a country where they don't speak the language and their own language is not widely spoken. And those are the two cases where people learn best. Just trying to draw meaning from words on a page or audio recordings is way way harder from a learning perspective.