I'm looking for an online tutor mainly to practice speaking. Several profiles promise ‘conversation lessons’ but the trial classes I've tried turned into textbook grammar explanations. I can study rules alone; what I nee...
I recognize dozens of words instantly when reading, yet in conversation the same words vanish until someone else says them. Flashcards make recognition easy if I always see the target word first, so I'm experimenting wit...
I used to do almost nothing Monday to Friday, then try to make up for it with two or three hours on Sunday. It felt productive because Sunday was a proper study session, but I kept spending the first half remembering wha...
My motivation for learning isn't an exam or a holiday. I want to follow the jokes and ordinary dinner-table conversations when visiting relatives. Textbook lessons have given me tidy sentences about hotels, but I get los...
Slow learner audio is comfortable for me now, and I can read the same material without much trouble. Put on a normal conversation and half the word boundaries disappear. I do not think the issue is simply vocabulary. If...
I can read a simple article in my target language and understand almost all of it. Ask me a basic question aloud and my brain offers nothing for five seconds, even though I know the words. It feels less like lacking voca...