It reminds me when I was learning piano. Yeah, I wanted to play the classics or the modern tunes, bu instead as my fingers where pathetic I had to practice with boring and monotone scores to build dexterity for my hands.
I think that’s something similar with programming, language learning and such. And again, college gives no time for that.
More anecdotal evidence: I was 3 months in German at college, at the 1st semester, really stressful due to the scholarship. I learned nothing.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 😆
I think I learnt more asking for a Kebap to some foreign who only knew German and his language, than in college. Being useful things, not gender of random words.
Again, it’s a balance between vocabulary and foundations and actual practice in the field.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 🧐 wow… I didn’t know that!
Coming from Spanish which has only 5 vowels and almost every time a syllable is read the same, learning German or French with many different pronunciations for the same letters, or as you say different meanings depending on their context has been mindblowing 🤯
Checking my notes, I find that there are as well a few strange traits in Spanish that foreigners could find counterintuitive, like having silent letters, sounds depending on the following vowel, and so…
#languagesAreWeird
