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See title. I've been to quite a few local language meetups and saw lots of people IRL who are learning languages: wondering how are y'all doing too

For myself... learning French due to necessity. I am making progress, just veeery slow. I underestimated how difficult it would be (a lot of vocabs between English/French are similar... but the languages themselves are not!)

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[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

English, being born in non english speaking country significantly boosts your chances of being proficient in two languages. I understand everything I read on the internet pretty well, but my writing skills are not perfect, and speaking is the hardest part.

[–] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

i found an easy and fun way to learn to speak it: take your favorite sitcom series, preferably a fast paced one with subtitles. pause after each sentence and try to repeat it. in the beginning you may have to learn the difficult sounds with help from youtube. went from being too ashamed to even speak it to fluent in a few months. and i used the office and brooklyn nine nine.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

I've been doing this with 1670 (Polish). Though, I'm not serious about learning, just dabbling in learning about the language. It's surprisingly a very helpful tool!

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Your writing skills are way above-average. Well done!