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Re:Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learni... by foobarian on Friday August 30, 2019 @09:54AM (#20838602)
I didn't really get much from spoken subtitled English, other than maybe an ear for it. Lion's share of actually learning came from text adventures alongside a bidirectional dictionary.
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Re:Growing up in post-communist Romania – thoughts on learni... by dougmwne on Friday August 30, 2019 @11:27AM (#20839515)
Developing an ear is an enormous advantage. It's taken me years to passively develop an ear for Polish and to go from hearing a mess of unpronounceable consonants, to being able to hear a new word, then accurately repeat it in one shot.
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