I’m eager to hear how that goes! Are you planning to take a test for a certain level at some point? Would be so curious how years of self learning has worked out and what you personally found the best way for you to learn!
L’étranger’s story is short but quite deep. Don’t get discouraged: one of my lang teachers said this once: you’ll reach a point where it feels like you understand based on the broader context but are missing words and will feel discouraged, but this is a wonderful part to be in while learning and means you are quite far already.
And 100% agree. I feel like asking AI some questions doesn’t really help me remember the answers. I prefer a course book and other materials.
I will just hire a tutor (some teacher I notice have background working at such test centres ) online to give me a mock test and an estimation of my level and get some advice and tutoring.
Official test are expensive will do them if I need a cert. If I just want to get an idea of my level, another way is to do a placement test at a language school and see what class they place you at, not sure if they charge any fees for that.
Thanks for sharing the advice from your teacher, that is useful, maybe someday everything will click. I tried to read old A1/2 stuff, things that used to be difficult for me, I realize how easy they are now. It is probably better to look at things in reverse. Instead of doing the easier stuff expecting it to make harder stuff easy we need to do the more difficult stuff so as to make the lower level content super easy.
Hiring a tutor sounds nice. Would allow you to also ask some questions that have been bugging you and practice speaking.
Yeah no the official tests are really expensive… I did a placement test for free at a local language learning center but not sure if they are always for free.
And I believe it’s exactly as you say: it will just click one day when you notice you can understand most if not all what was said! And I definitely noticed the same with going back (during a placement test) to basics and realizing how easy some stuff is.
I’ve gotten good results with moving on without getting stuck too - I still heavily depend on context but I can ask someone to explain a word that I don’t understand (very simplified explanation that requires gestures) and it has really helped me learn.
I’m eager to hear how that goes! Are you planning to take a test for a certain level at some point? Would be so curious how years of self learning has worked out and what you personally found the best way for you to learn!
L’étranger’s story is short but quite deep. Don’t get discouraged: one of my lang teachers said this once: you’ll reach a point where it feels like you understand based on the broader context but are missing words and will feel discouraged, but this is a wonderful part to be in while learning and means you are quite far already.
And 100% agree. I feel like asking AI some questions doesn’t really help me remember the answers. I prefer a course book and other materials.
I will just hire a tutor (some teacher I notice have background working at such test centres ) online to give me a mock test and an estimation of my level and get some advice and tutoring.
Official test are expensive will do them if I need a cert. If I just want to get an idea of my level, another way is to do a placement test at a language school and see what class they place you at, not sure if they charge any fees for that.
Thanks for sharing the advice from your teacher, that is useful, maybe someday everything will click. I tried to read old A1/2 stuff, things that used to be difficult for me, I realize how easy they are now. It is probably better to look at things in reverse. Instead of doing the easier stuff expecting it to make harder stuff easy we need to do the more difficult stuff so as to make the lower level content super easy.
Hiring a tutor sounds nice. Would allow you to also ask some questions that have been bugging you and practice speaking.
Yeah no the official tests are really expensive… I did a placement test for free at a local language learning center but not sure if they are always for free.
And I believe it’s exactly as you say: it will just click one day when you notice you can understand most if not all what was said! And I definitely noticed the same with going back (during a placement test) to basics and realizing how easy some stuff is.
I’ve gotten good results with moving on without getting stuck too - I still heavily depend on context but I can ask someone to explain a word that I don’t understand (very simplified explanation that requires gestures) and it has really helped me learn.