Denice
Rabbit CohenOne of the hard things about learning a language is that you have to be so bad at it for so long before you're good at it. This is probably a problem with learning in general, actually.
It's kind of like learning to draw. You have to figure out how to have fun along the way while you're still bad at it.
I do think learning a new language is a really enlightening and rewarding process. It forces and allows you to think about the world differently and examine how you look at the world by default. But sometimes I'm like "Ok, I get it, can I be fluent now?"
Sass, David@BathysphereHat I don't think that all learning is like this. I can learn a lot about certain things like IT just by reading a LOT without any practice at all, so I can escape the bad part.
@sassdawe I guess it's more true of things that are skills, not just knowledge.
C.B.Leslie@BathysphereHat @arichtman one of my Japanese friends recently said to me, "I want to get good at English."
My response was, "Get bad it at first."
It unlocked a part of his brain that was blocked by shame. Now he just tries.