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The biggest helper that wasn’t mentioned is keeping or making new friends who are strong in your target language and weak in your strong tongue. That has helped
by werber 6y ago
The biggest helper that wasn’t mentioned is keeping or making new friends who are strong in your target language and weak in your strong tongue. That has helped me more than anything
- seszett 6y agoI've found that the problem with this most of the time is that we end up just speaking English because it's less frustrating (simply because most people are better at it because of exposure) than trying to use each other's tongue.
- 082349872349872 6y agoC'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591488 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591488
- pessimizer 6y agoThis just mean that they're beating you in the contest of getting the most language learning out of your interactions. Your frustration in speaking is causing you to bail, or your perception of their frustration in understanding is causing you to bail, so you're instead always returning to a language where you can be comfortable speaking and you're not worried about frustrating your friend with your attempts. From my pov, that just means that you'd rather exercise your patience than the target language, because you you have control over your patience and kindness, and you don't have control over the target language (it's a scarier position to be in.)
- werber 6y agoI've fallen into that SOO many times. And it's a bit transactional to ask people to lower the intellect of the conversation to help you out for a portion of the time you talk together
- rimliu 6y agoLearning foreign language is way easier than "making new friends".