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I'm mentally preparing to complain to a pigeon feeder in my target language. Wish me luck.

(the pigeons are filling up my window sill with shit and have learned to wait for the feeder early in the morning, waking me up way before my actual alarm)

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[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Travel really does help a lot. I'm not big on travel, I mostly like learning languages for the fun of it, less as a communication tool... but going to the place and having conversations with people who don't speak English really triggers somethings in my brain like 'hey, this is important!' that makes the learning process click.

The speed is really tough. I know I've read before that Spanish and Japanese both have higher speed (eg, in this infographic), but then when I went to look it up Wikipedia says it may be an illusion, so idk lol. I know for sure that it seems overwhelmingly fast when native speakers talk to each other, and in TV shows etc. But if you're talking to a person irl at least they'll slow it down for ya.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago

Yeah and it's also super rewarding. I sometimes feel discouraged when I read something and I don't understand, but talking to someone can fix that (when the person compensates for my lack of skill/vocabulary).

I was wondering about that awhile back. Spanish (and now that you mentioned, Japanese) sound insanely fast!