How did you learn another language?
What effective ways have you all found to learn other languages when you don’t have a formal classroom to learn it in.
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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
Classroom is not very effective if you are looking for the ability to converse in another language, imho. Classrooms focus on written language, reading, grammar, etc. And the phonetics are not the same from language to language. I had four years of high school Spanish and three semesters of French, both essentially worthless although I can pick out a few words and phrases in written form. At one time I would have said my German was the best, and I just learned that through immersion -- living there for the better part of two years. But now it is the same through disuse.