are the easier to learn. I took a shot a Russian, but never got past "how are you" . . "I'm fine thank you." And there's a reason they say "It's all Greek to me."
In my earlier youth, I could actually speak it . . . well. . just a little bit. . . from listening to my Panamanian born mother, grandmother and aunt (who went on to get a PhD in Spanish literature). I was able to pick it up just through their conversations. As time went on. that went away.
When I was stationed in Germany I was able to at least functionally speak in tongue just by hanging out with a couple families Fortunately, my best friend there was fluent in English, which helped.
I guess what I'm saying is the best way to learn a language after understanding sentence structure, etc. is to take in as much conversation as you can. Essentially learning by osmosis. I read a story about an individual who learned to functionally speak a language by watching cartoons.
The best example I have is this. . . the son of one of the members of my amputee support group was a teacher in China. And he couldn't speak a word of Chinese. He was there to talk in English to his students.
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Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/02/2020 07:51AM by RAMbeau.