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Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age by bambax on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @10:44AM (#19788357)
> As an adult, I’m damned near petrified to speak the language.

Have a drink or two. Really. I've noticed I'm much better in a foreign language when I'm mildly drunk (or at least I think I am, which helps get past the self-awareness block).

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Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age by nemosaltat on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @11:01AM (#19788529)
You probably do!

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/026988111773568...

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Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age by cgriswald on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:14PM (#19789261)
Me too. Two of my close friends are native Spanish speakers and when I’m a little drunk I can converse with them fairly fluently. When I’m not I can still do it but I’m very slow and make more mistakes.
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Re:It’s Hard to Learn French in Middle Age by moufestaphio on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @01:53PM (#19790256)
Seriously, came to say this.

Speaking wise it helps a lot. You stop worrying about the conjugation or sentence structure etc, and just communicate with the other person.

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