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Should I follow my dream or enjoy my life? I'm picking up!

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Keep it up! Find the way to enjoy the process. Appreciate every tiniest improvement, they seem small, but they will all add up into fluency. Pick a few words a week, and try to think and name them in the language you are studying everytime in dailylife. For example, every time you see a table you think (and say aloud too) 'der Tisch', when you see your brother 'der Bruter', and so on...same with numbers, days of the week... Don't give up!
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If you truly want to be able to speak another language and this is your first time learning a language, then you should either pick an easy language or one which you truly love. If you choose a language which you truly love, that passion should keep you going even when it might seem like you are making no progress at all, otherwise you can choose an easy language, such as Esperanto, which is great for learning how to learn a language, even if you do not become completely fluent at that language, it should help you understand how to approach learning a new language. I would also suggest that you pick a language which is closely related to you native one when learning your first language. From my own experience, my native language is Hebrew so English was a bit weird for me to learn as the two languages are not related at all, and English has concepts which Hebrew does not (such as a/an, progressive tenses, the verb "to be"...). Besides that I would also suggest that you try to listen to the language as much as possible (If you do not know any films or bands, you can pm me and I will send you a few), it will help you grow your vocabulary and though you will not know the grammar rules, you will be able to know whether a sentence is right or wrong by how it sounds to you. This is how I learned English, it took me a bit over 3 years of this method. The change is gradual, at first you will not understand a thing until later on you will be able to understand bits of what you are hearing until it gets to the point where you will be able to understand everything as if it were your native language. I do think that you should still, at the very least, learn the basic grammar rules, just so that you could understand the basic concepts and that you would understand why when someone asks "Wie geht's dir?" the other person would reply "... und dir?" instead of "und du/dich?".

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