One of the best decisions I made with respect to my language learning was to give up on fluency. Oh, I can muddle through pleasantries and transactions when tr

One of the best decisions I made with respect to my language learning was to give up on fluency. Oh, I can muddle through pleasantries and transactions when traveling and I continue to enjoy learning new words and phrases. But when I finally let go of my aspirations to become fluent it was as if a major weight was lifted off my shoulders after decades of beating myself up about being such a poor language learner. You can only have so many top priorities in your life so it's perfectly fine to choose to learn a language recreationally for fun rather than seriously for fluency.