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What is plateauing?
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silentlearner
Diglot
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Romania
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01 November 2007 at 1:10am | IP Logged

Something that can be used in order to become fluent as I understand so far.
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William Camden
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United Kingdom
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01 November 2007 at 3:21am | IP Logged

silentlearner wrote:

Something that can be used in order to become fluent as I understand so far.

I see it as staying in the same place with a language no matter how hard you study. Frustrating, and something to be overcome.
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apparition
Octoglot
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United States
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Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), French, Arabic (Iraqi), Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish
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01 November 2007 at 10:54am | IP Logged

Plateauing is based off the word plateau (which, in case you're wondering, is a geological formation that rises up quickly from the surrounding earth, then is flat on the top). If you're 'plateauing', you've progressed really quickly at first, but then you don't seem to be going any 'higher'--your progress is flat.
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Monox D. I-Fly
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01 October 2016 at 5:29pm | IP Logged

apparition wrote:

Does that mean reaching the limit of your potential?

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