Assuming this person would be part of the upper class and would have the time to study properly. How would studying even work when there’s no language to translate to and from?
Assuming this person would be part of the upper class and would have the time to study properly. How would studying even work when there’s no language to translate to and from?
Currently learning a third language as an adult, with my first two being from childhood. This rings true. I took 2 years of it in middle school and got nowhere, but now that I’m actually putting effort into it I’m picking it up super quick.
I’m using Duolingo for regimented practice, but supplementing it with music I enjoy, podcasts, and even Pokemon Go. Middle school mostly just gave me rote memorization of vocab that I barely remember, but nearly no immersion
I took two years of French in high school, I can say ai as a avons avez ont. Because that’s most of the french I actually spoke aloud in that class. Two years I “studied” this language, I’m not sure I’d be able to safely spend a week in France, I’d be hit by a train because I didn’t understand the warning sign.
That’s not how they taught me English. In second language classes, they’ll try to teach you rules like adjective order; like how we always say a wonderful big red balloon. If you said a red wonderful big balloon you sound broken. ESL students will be taught that their first semester, a native English speaker will follow that rule perfectly without consciously knowing it exists for 30 years until it is pointed out by that linguist tiktok guy.