Thank you for the thoughtful insight! It’s always astounded me how expertly some multilinguals on the internet speak English, sometimes as fluently as myself, despite it being not being their “first language”, like my Israeli friend on Telegram who’s never been to an Anglophone place yet I talk to like we’ve been neighbors for a decade. It’s interesting, and good news, to hear one such wizard endorse Anki and the study of linguistics and grammar as part of their optimal path, and place value on artificial immersion, as I’m still doing the phone language-switchy thing.
For four months last year I did over half of Russian Babbel, joined two Discord servers, played some translated games, and started thinking what I could in Russian. Forming sentences on the spot is still nigh-impossible, but reading and listening is easier. Indeed, the German I learned six years ago comes a whole lot more naturally for input and output still. It must be is those long words in a new script, like представляющий, and their manifold of conjugations.
Thank you for the thoughtful insight! It’s always astounded me how expertly some multilinguals on the internet speak English, sometimes as fluently as myself, despite it being not being their “first language”, like my Israeli friend on Telegram who’s never been to an Anglophone place yet I talk to like we’ve been neighbors for a decade. It’s interesting, and good news, to hear one such wizard endorse Anki and the study of linguistics and grammar as part of their optimal path, and place value on artificial immersion, as I’m still doing the phone language-switchy thing.
For four months last year I did over half of Russian Babbel, joined two Discord servers, played some translated games, and started thinking what I could in Russian. Forming sentences on the spot is still nigh-impossible, but reading and listening is easier. Indeed, the German I learned six years ago comes a whole lot more naturally for input and output still. It must be is those long words in a new script, like представляющий, and their manifold of conjugations.