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Originally Posted by ArcheM
All I can say is, welcome to the club. I mean, English is my second language and, like, my parents took me to lessons somewhere around kindergarten age... and I still barely had any grasp in, well, somewhere around the middle of secondary school.
And German... well, I began in the spring of 2013 (which makes it my 5th anniversary!). Anyway, for me every language has had an interminable period where I felt I wasn't making any progress. If I'm counting right, in the winter of 2015 I still couldn't understand basically any spoken German. Of course, then it started moving pretty steadily because that's the time I found a reliable source of German sounds that I could enjoy for a long time (gaming-related).
One exception to this rule was Dutch... Well, I'm still bad at understanding speech, but I was able to pick up an unadapted book in about a month, because the written language is very similar to German... Of course, I relied on a dictionary a lot, but at least I after that things made sense, grammatically and whatnot.
...I mean, there's pretty much only one antidote to slow progress - immersing yourself in as much German as you can find. :shrug:
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I think for me it's the whole instant gratification issue, we live in a society now where a lot of things are instant, so we expect almost all things to happen right away, but that isn't always the case. So I think that is where my problem lies mostly, and yeah immersing myself would be a good thing. Lately though every time I try to listen to music on any of my music apps I use up all my phone storage somehow, I had to delete all songs out of my Google play app so now all I have for use is Spotify and Amazon music. I did not have this problem with my old phone, so I think I'll have to get a new phone when I can afford it which won't be for awhile (I'm also having other problems besides the storage issue).