9:22 so I’m learning Japanese and the levels the Japanese gov has (JLPT) seems more divided on comprehension and output. Like if you score the highest you’re expected to be able to be dropped off in the middle of nowhere with people who only speak Japanese and be fine for months on end or be entirely literate kind of comprehension. And that’s kinda how I see fluency levels like that. How much can you comprehend, how long can you survive being in a place with only that language, etc.

I love this video! Very interesting learning about your thoughts on all these advices😆

I love geeking out over this stuff. Another KZread channel (It's Natalia) about Korea did a video on how Koreans treat people who don't speak Korean.. she mentions Papago which is basically Google translate. You can speak into it or type into it and it will translate pretty accurately and even read it etc. Which can seem amazing but the fact is most Koreans don't have the patience to use it to speak to foreigners. Sure, when you're the foreigner you have all the patience in the world to use this sort of translation. But depending on the situation of course but it's still loads slower than real time speaking to someone in their language and natives are only so interested in speaking to you in the first place. Obviously, if the person is genuinely interested in talking to you, like someone who sees that you look a little lost and stops to help you, then it can work well, but most people.. not so much it seems from she said in her video. Looking at those CEFR levels I'm not a C2 in my native language :(. There's different levels of deliberate study for sure. There's totally passive, like listening to a podcast while you do chores, and then there's doing more focused activities but one's that you're used to doing: for me that would be reading books on LingQ and sentence mining etc. Then there's doing activities that really push you like speaking to natives, or even worse, getting a job where you need to use the target language on the job and your level is just barely good enough to scrape by and you desperately need to level up etc. or maybe even just taking a class that actually uses the language at all times in the classroom but every class you've taken to date used mostly English and now you're being pushed a lot more than previously. Most of my studying is kind of deliberate in that I'm very focused on what I'm doing (reading a book etc) but it's not stressful and therefore doesn't push me a lot so I improve pretty slowly. But I do improve.

Interesting perspectives explained from reddit keyboard ninjas. People who reached C level suite dont really struggle with the language or they do but rarely. They dont look up words that often anymore and can understand mood and nuances but many times not as a native. I ve been around Diskussions with Germans were I was the point of reference because I knew the terms of my field better. Does that make me any better. Not really but my occupation made me more confortable in a certain spectrum than natives. Better or worse is a silly argument after all as I do mistakes and have many times issue in my own tongue. Main point is find those gaps or nuances and get better at it.

What is it with you and French? Skipping pronouncing the word "enamoured," stumbling a bit on "entendre" and listing French as a language you'd learn with a click of a button if you could in contrast to languages you like discovering through study.

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Me and French have a dark past 😂😉