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Have you tried talking to someone in the language you are learning? (sopuli.xyz)
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Any experiences? At home or abroad.

My recent experience:

Tried to talk to someone and it was going well until they said 2 sentences really fast and I had no clue what they said.

I must've looked confused, trying to mutter something, ANYTHING! What were the words I'm supposed to say?! I forgot the polite "sorry, could you repeat that" in every language I know.

They caught me off guard, damn it. Then came the killing blow: "English?".

In my moment of weakness I submitted and gave them a nod. From there on we were talking as equals, but my pride had taken a hit. I was defeated. I must go back to my books and duolingo and hide until I have courage again.

(Sorry for the dramatic text, wanted to make a boring interaction sound bit more interesting)

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[–] markstos@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I used Tandem to find patient and compatible language partners. They are adults working on learning my language while I learn theirs. So we take turns failing and being patient and kind with each other.

We use texting and translation apps as needed.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I tried this as well, but my main native language is not that popular amongst people from my learning target language. Guess I should checkout online tandem communities.

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What’s your main language?

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 hours ago

Finnish. Quite a small language pool lol.