One 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.

@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.