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If you're busy with a job (and you're posting on HN), you probably have enough money for a tutor. Language tutoring over skype is cheap -- you'll get a (human)
by blueboo 8y ago
If you're busy with a job (and you're posting on HN), you probably have enough money for a tutor. Language tutoring over skype is cheap -- you'll get a (human) chatbot adjusted to your level that moves between tools. And it replaces and is superior to going to a class.
If the prospect of practicing with a human makes you nervous -- well, that anxiety is in proportion to how fast your neurons will be motivated to reconfigure themselves for their new knowledge!
- stackola 8y agoIs that really how nervousness works?
- dazc 8y agoThis resonates with me since I used to have a teacher come to my office twice a week for a one hour lesson. I always found the actual learning experience quite difficult but, over time, our casual chats moved from nearly all english to nearly all spanish simply because I felt comfortable enough that if I got words wrong or had a mental block it didn't matter since she would sense what I was trying to say and help me along. As you suggest, I found the stuff I had anxiety about at first was the stuff I learned and remembered most. The simple stuff I learned with not much effort is the stuff I need to keep revising.