Now I’m trying to do the same with Hungarian, with an important difference though. This time I’m using every chance to speak at least for a for words or sentences whenever possible. My background in grammar is almost non existent and I struggle with word order, cases and everything you can struggle with in a new language – BUT I don’t care if its not correct, as long people understand or at least guess what I wanted to say.

This way I have no fear of talking and making mistakes. Bit by bit people are correcting me and I hope to soon get from saying a few words to being able to keep up a conversation for a few minutes :)

And as for the grammar and rules, there is more then enough time for it :)

I believe the biggest mistake one can make is to wait for too long to start speaking.

So to sum it up, SPEAK, SPEAK, SPEAK! :)

Hey everyone, I'm back on Italki after ages and since I've just responded to a kind question about how do I approach learning a new language and after seeing this post I though it would be perfect to share it here as well :)

I've been learning different languages in primary and high school and I guess I noticed that school system of learning the language doesn’t work for me. I believe that too much focus on grammar, that I consider unnecessary for a beginner, and worrying about mistakes makes you only more afraid of speaking. I’ve learned German and Russian in this way and I can barely introduce myself. I’ve learned German for 4 years and Russian for 5, so obviously very ineffective way of learning ;)

And English I’ve only learned properly once I started traveling and stopped worrying about every tiny grammatical mistake.

When I decided to learn a new language, Spanish, I decided to try a totally different approach. I singed up for classes in the language school (group of 6) and besides I’ve been listening to a lot of music, listened to beginner podcasts watched tons of movies and series (with Spanish subtitles) and even though at first I didn’t get a word, it helped me a lot later on because I would learn phrases from real conversations and later on I’d learn it at the class and understand the grammar behind it. 

Not the other way around like they always taught us at school :) (At the moment my spoken Spanish is probably at B2 level and writing at B1)

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Someone could correct it?

Hello Tommy,
How are you? Are you having a good summer?
As you know I have been in a relationship with Sandra for four years. with Sandra. Two months ago, I found naked photos (people can be naked, not the photos, photos can be explicit or you can say photos of them naked) and flirtatious text messages between she her and another man and we decided to split up. split out our relationship.

I am feeling very sad, but at least, Sandra doesn’t cheat me (anymore). I relied on her, but she failed (could also be let me down or dissapointed)  another time. We shared many experiences, probably too many, and at the end, our relationship became borring bored (bored you say for persones, for example when you are bored). I was blinded by love. (although it is grammaticly ok, I would maybe say My love was blind)

She has a new partner, she told me that he is an older professor at the university; I think that they are both as different as chalk and cheese. He is retired and he comes from an aristocratic family. At the end she told me that it was a platonic love. What a shame¡¡¡!!! (No these in english :) Love is blind¡¡¡¡

I am obsessed with her. Always she She always comes to my mind, in the morning, durring the lunch time, and all everything (not sure what you wanted to say here) at night, when we went out I go out to walk for a walk with Tesco, my pet. I wish I never met her. How can I get over this situation? I am afraid that it is will be impossible. I will be on a sick leave due to depression. I know, I am a bird-brain, but I am suffering too much. Help me¡¡¡.
Probably if I hadn’t met her I would have been the happiest boy in the world.

Over and out,

Andrew.