Does anyone have experience with this practice and if so would you recommend it? In my case it's learning Turkish in order to have an easier time with Kyrgyz later down the road.

I want to learn kyrgyz in the future but as someone who relies heavily on immersion for language learning it's difficult to find reliable content to grasp the grammar. I am thinking about learning basic Turkish before diving into Kyrgyz to better grasp turkic grammar. I am mainly interested in doing this because there is so much more turkish content for immersion and learning online then for Kyrgyz. Also i do want to learn basic turkish to some degree as i visit there quite often and im interested in general in the language.

What are your opinions? Do you think it will help me later with understanding kyrgyz grammar better?

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I am 32 y.o. and planning on going to Taiwan for a 10 week college language exchange program this winter. I am genuinely wanting to get to conversational Chinese. Anyone did this later in life around my age? Was is hard making friends? Will I be considered creepy? (ethnically Korean, male, single, also retired already)

Hey all,

So, I'm neurodivergent and I've got relatively slow auditory processing (for those who don't know, it just means that it takes my brain a little longer to process/make sense of spoken language/sounds; it's my brain, not my ears). For this reason, I'm very keen to work on my listening comprehension, so here's the strategy I've been using.

Day 0: Pick a short story from my collection of graded German (TL) short stories, one that I can already understand ~ 70 - 90% of. I note down the words/collocations I don't know and make them into Anki flashcards (no translations, pictures where possible, sentences with key words omitted for linkers/turns of phrase etc).

Day 1: do my flashcards and then listen (instead of re-reading) to the audiobook of the short story.

Day 2 - 7: repeat flashcards, re-listen to the short story and shadow every sentence.

By about day 6, I can confidently shadow almost the whole short story.

Here's my question: would I make better progress if, instead of repeating the same short story every week, I ploughed ahead through more short stories/reading and listening material? I came across this post (linked above) and I'm thinking that I could stand to move at a faster pace. While my method does work, it gets pretty boring a couple days in, which is a real test of my patience.

Many thanks all :)

For me it was French, particularly how many sounds are reduced in real-life speech and how clipped it can be, sometimes I’m like, there is literally no distinguishable phonetic information here - but clearly the entire French nation disagrees haha. I really love it though, it’s been a fascinating jump too.

It made me wonder what other languages have the steepest ‘learning —> IRL’ jump in your experience?

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