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If you had three years of paid vacation where you had to use the language exclusively for everything, your skills would probably improve to toddler-level or bey
by musicale 4y ago
If you had three years of paid vacation where you had to use the language exclusively for everything, your skills would probably improve to toddler-level or beyond. Though admittedly you already know many things that they have to learn at the same time.
Having to communicate with your family (and probably close friends/significant other/etc.) exclusively in the language probably makes a big difference as well.
- timr 4y agoI think a lot of fluency is having someone carry you around 24/7 and talk to you like a baby for a few years. Much of the rest is just having patient people around you for another 3-4 years who will listen to you babble like an idiot and correct you when you're wrong. I agree that if I could do nothing but spend 3 years in total immersion, I'd probably accumulate an adult-level vocabulary (again, the ramp-up is steep), but I still wouldn't sound like a native at that point, whereas a toddler would sound like a native...but have a toddler vocabulary.