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Hurdles to speaking languages fluently

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Daciana
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 Message 41 of 42
09 November 2010 at 7:09am | IP Logged 
I think it drastically improves someone's fluency if they visit the country, because a language isn't just syntax and grammar, there is a whole culture behind it.

I visited Romania with my mom and brother last summer, but until then I could barely speak Romanian. I would respond in English, but understand everything my mom said. My Romanian was sluggish and bumpy, and I didn't feel confident speaking it. Then I went to Romania, and it just came naturally to me after that.

Some people don't need that though, which is pretty cool! :)
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Cavesa
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Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1
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 Message 42 of 42
16 March 2011 at 11:50am | IP Logged 
Old Chemist wrote:
I think this is one reason why the English are reputedly not particularly welcome abroad, I know it's a cliche, but there are a certain number of English speakers who imagine the best way to communicate abroad is loudly and slowly - in English.


Made me laugh because there is as well a number of Czech speakers who try the same in Czech and just don't seem to realize why it is not working. :-D

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