http://l2mastery.com/featured-articles/activating-your-foreign-language Tips, Tools & Tech for Learning ANY Language Fast Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:51:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://l2mastery.com/featured-articles/activating-your-foreign-language/comment-page-1#comment-7387 Kiki Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:44:49 +0000 http://l2mastery.com/?p=309#comment-7387 Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed this piece. I moved to Serbia almost a year ago. I am still not that great with the language. I have been through a proper course, which did help a little to grasp the concepts of the cases involved with most Slavic languages; however, I do not feel that I know Serbian. I have always listened to conversations when out with friends. My friends always thought it was just a cop-out to not speak Serbian or try. I still lack much vocabulary and have started buying children's books to read. The grammar is simple enough for me to understand but usually includes vast vocabulary I do not know. In my head, I look at it as I started reading kids' books in English when I was about 2½ - 3 years old. I'll start similarly now with Serbian. Your piece gives me a bit of relief knowing I haven't been wasting my time trying to speak a language I do not understand yet. Thanks!! Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed this piece. I moved to Serbia almost a year ago. I am still not that great with the language. I have been through a proper course, which did help a little to grasp the concepts of the cases involved with most Slavic languages; however, I do not feel that I know Serbian. I have always listened to conversations when out with friends. My friends always thought it was just a cop-out to not speak Serbian or try. I still lack much vocabulary and have started buying children's books to read. The grammar is simple enough for me to understand but usually includes vast vocabulary I do not know. In my head, I look at it as I started reading kids' books in English when I was about 2½ – 3 years old. I'll start similarly now with Serbian. Your piece gives me a bit of relief knowing I haven't been wasting my time trying to speak a language I do not understand yet. Thanks!!

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