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I'm using Duolingo, and have three courses going because I have the linguistic attention span of a gnat. I'm particularly fond (so far) of French, though!
...Lo siento, mi profesoras. I took Spanish from 3rd grade to 12th grade, was an honors student, but just never got that fluent thing going. For the best I guess, my accent (in all languages) is just atrocious.
Self and Art (c) J. "Rehgan" Fitzmaurice
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I took a government course for French. They put me through 6 levels at 2 months each (when they were intended to be four) pushed me ahead when they shouldn't have, and at the end called me fluant. Not even close. Ah well. I wish you better luck than I had :3
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That's often the problem with courses, I feel. The teachers/administrators are under pressure to get X-amount done in Y-time, regardless of how the students pick it up or don't.
The catch is that total immersion works wonders, but totally immersing without knowing wtf you're saying is a terrifying thought!
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It also didn't help that some of the teachers got into their line of work to push their political agenda on unsuspecting students. Nothing like using a language course to push propaganda, no?
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I had the same problem when I was still in school. Learned French for.. 7-8 years and couldn't even order a baguette or ask for the time. ;)
In English it went better for me because even in Germany you have English everywhere around you. You can watch movies in English, talk to others for practice, chat with people from UK and USA via internet... It's all about practice.
When I studied Japanese I would have never really understand the grammer without all the exchange students from Tokio we did some tandem learning with. (Is this the right translation?)My advice: Get yourself a native speaker who likes to learn your native language in exchange. It's a great help to get used to it and stay to the stuff you learn during the lessons. And don't just teach each other insults like everyone does first. :D
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or you can mix and match them in sentence XD i do that sometimes hahahaha