Chris wrote:The inevitable (?) plateau
Self-assessments put me between A2/B1and I really want to...
I don't know if this is good news or bad news, but you're not at the plateau yet.
Chris wrote:The inevitable (?) plateau
Self-assessments put me between A2/B1and I really want to...
smallwhite wrote:I don't know if this is good news or bad news, but you're not at the plateau yet.
Jbean wrote: ...
What doesn't work for me; listening to music, watching movies or TV with English subtitles, watching TV without subtitles when I can't understand much spoken language, reviewing easy stuff when I should be struggling with something new.
Tristano wrote:b2 is the kingdom of "I have a problem with my kitchen sink but I can't talk about it in the pub with my friends because I don't know the names of the parts".
blaurebell wrote:Tristano wrote:b2 is the kingdom of "I have a problem with my kitchen sink but I can't talk about it in the pub with my friends because I don't know the names of the parts".
I can't talk about problems with my kitchen sink even in my native language ...! And if I have to call tech support I sound like a moron in German and that's although *I worked in tech support in Germany* Lost cause, I'm useless at pragmatic language usage in general, not just in my TLs. I think when you get to a point where people understand you when you ask for anything without knowing the words you're already far ahead of many native speakers when they pull a blank. I always get blank stares myself!
"The thing that you put in the ... you know .. the green stuff ..." Me talking about Zucchini in my native language
I have no problems having fairly convoluted discussions about philosophy, but interference is killing any semblance of eloquence with pragmatic usage in any language.