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Re:Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as childr... by thanatropism on Saturday May 11, 2019 @05:36PM (#19888523)
How did you evaluate your "close to conversational"? Polish is notoriously hard to learn. You might have been intelligible due to intimacy but not to a random fluent speaker.
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Re:Adults learn language to fluency nearly as well as childr... by tomcam on Saturday May 11, 2019 @08:57PM (#19889417)
I realized it when I was speaking in another language without knowing it, and when her friends started talking to me in Polish instead of English.
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