Re:The Harm of Studying Abroad
by ghostpepper on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @03:28PM
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How fluent were you in the language after three years? Three years of French or Spanish might put you much further ahead than three years of Mandarin or Russian, for example.
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It was German. I was (am?) fluent enough to function in a professional office environment without falling back on English. Of course it was a luxury to be in a country where I know 90% of people can just switch to English if the conversation goes off the rails