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Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age by atemerev on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @09:38AM (#19787782)
Sure, I am passionate about Russian grammar too, and I used to correct mistakes of native Russians writing in Russian (I stopped doing that when I learned that dyslexia is quite real and common, and I now feel sorry for that).

However, any foreigner trying to speak Russian, no matter how broken or incorrect, will meet nothing but praise and encouragement from other Russians.

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Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age by x0x0 on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:13AM (#19788069)
Except the lady who sells subway tickets in Moscow. That lady is quite grumpy.

(Everyone else was kind.)

I took immersive classes, speaking 6 hours / day, 90 minutes spent on pronunciation drills. The only downside is my accent got better faster than my vocab, confusing lots of people with whom I interacted.

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