Do you have any advice for a person, who is completely unable to learn English?))
Sometimes (today, for example) I truly hate people who destroyed the Babel Tower, because learning of languages is a kind of a personal curse for me. I'm really clever person. I have pretty high IQ level,, I'm succesful in understanding of Jacque Lacan, Derrida, cinema theories, neomarxism and etc. I'm good student and promising researcher. But when I think about my English level I want to make the MRT to understand what's wrong with my poor brains. I'm learning this pretty simple (as normal people tell) and logical language for two years, and also I have some background from schooltime. And I still can't hear english speech. I'm pretty good in reading and don't almost use the translator for understanding of texts. Also I can write when it's necessary (as now, for example)). But when I try to take part in discussion with my english-speaking friends or watch films, I feel really disappointed by all my skills in English. I can understand separate words and phrases, but speech stays disrupted for my ear, I can't hear it as the entire one. I'm musician, so it's really strange for me to have problems with phonemic hearing. I feel really bad about that and sometimes think, that I'll never speak in English, never can share my mind with fellows in their mother tongue. What a shit...
If you have any advice for me, I'll be totally thankful.
And grammar corrections are welcome as always :)
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Anna, please do not get discouraged. I have been studying Spanish (native English) for at least 10 years. I have listened to every audio program, and spent many hours reading textbooks and also watching TV and video. I pretty much know about as much as any person can, WITHOUT LIVING IN A SPANISH-SPEAKING COUNTRY. I still struggle with understanding spoken Spanish. Just don't give up!
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The first step is to start believing you can - motivate yourself. Then alchemize that motivation into proactivity to learn actively at every chance you get and take more learning initiative.
With this I mean, for instance, watching movies/documentaries/interviews/any video of interaction between natives in target language at normal speed (sometimes, only sometimes, slowing it down to 0.75x speed or so, when you really have a hard time understanding the context/a word of crucial meaning.)
Focus more on descriptive parts of the language in case you intend to use it for your research, as opposed to slang/exalted speech/figures of speech.
No subtitles. Pause and go back in the videos as little as possible, listen intently.
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well, being smart in something doesn't make smart in everything ! maybe your methods of learning are not suitble for you, try different methods may it will help
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