dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese
| Message 9 of 27 31 May 2014 at 2:41am | IP Logged |
Bao wrote:
Motivation. And, making mistakes. :P |
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S'funny. I'm OK with motivation and I have absolutely no problems in making mistakes :-)
My issues are mostly with finding enough hours in the day to do all the language
activities I've planned for that day, while still managing to fit in all the stuff that
life throws at you.
Oh to be a kid again and have endless hours of private tuition from two adults who will
be incredibly embarrassed if you don't grow up speaking like a native :-)
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Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5640 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French
| Message 10 of 27 31 May 2014 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
Lack of patience which leads me to think I'm not improving fast enough. Also, being
afraid of making mistakes when speaking.
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7204 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 11 of 27 31 May 2014 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
Brain power.
and sleep.
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camus Newbie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5233 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: Mandarin* Studies: English, German
| Message 12 of 27 01 June 2014 at 4:33am | IP Logged |
grammar. especially when you see the grammar rules you spend a good amount of time learning and practicing fail real-life conversations... imagine that frustrating moment.
but of course, every language has its loose, weird and goofy side, and that's the beauty of natural languages -- superregular and flawless grammars are for computers.
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Gollum87 Diglot Newbie Yugoslavia Joined 3936 days ago 31 posts - 46 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English Studies: Italian
| Message 13 of 27 02 June 2014 at 10:24am | IP Logged |
Not having contact with native speakers and not practicing the speaking...
I haven't had big problems with grammers, but I have problem with learning new words and phrases.. and remembering them.. So, even when I am sure I won't make a grammatic mistake (or at least not a big one), I forget a word and I'm not able to express my thoughts or emotions...
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garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5206 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 14 of 27 02 June 2014 at 11:42am | IP Logged |
Time. Most of my other obstacles (opportunities to speak/practise, difficulties with particular aspects like pronunciation, struggling to maintain/improve my level in several languages) could probably be worked out if I had the time!
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Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4307 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French
| Message 15 of 27 02 June 2014 at 1:01pm | IP Logged |
I struggle the most with pride - I don't like to look stupid and this inhibits me when I
speak spontaneously.
With German, I also avoided doing textbook exercises or drills (learning entirely through
shadowing and transcription), which means that I still make major "schoolboy errors" from
time to time, if I have a rare construction like informal 2nd person plural pluperfect.
Now that I'm using the drill sections of the Linguaphone Spanish course, I can really see
how well they make you focus on the details, and having to teach English using textbook
materials makes me appreciate that they are valuable in exercising lesser-known variations
of conjugation for some aspect of grammar.
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5165 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 16 of 27 02 June 2014 at 11:10pm | IP Logged |
Finding native speakers to practice the language with, in a regular and fruitful way.
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