How has learning a language as an adult helped you to learn about a culture / gain new perspective? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by Lazycog@sopuli.xyz to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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I personally feel like I understand German-speaking people better the more I study the language.

E.g. my experience was that they are generally good listeners because their language has a sentence structure which forces the listener to wait for the most important information at the end of a sentence.

Bad Denglish to demonstrate:

"I have yesterday night... at the football field.... together with friends ... (dude get to the point) had a beer"

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[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

It is really hard! My teachers tried to give me tips and tricks but honestly there was no way around it: exercising listening A LOT was the only way to learn.

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