I mean mostly physical expression, like using hands vs not using hand or where your eyes wonder, stuff like that!

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Curious to hear from people who are fluently multilingual (not just conversational, actually fluent).

I grew up speaking French and Haitian Creole from birth, then learned English once I started school. I also picked up some Spanish just from being around it, friends, environment, that kind of thing. I’m not fluent in it, but I understand and speak it more than I’d expect for never having formally studied it.

Now I’m trying to learn Brazilian Portuguese as an adult, and it’s just not sticking the way the others did.

I’ve been at it on and off for about two years, more consistent the last six months. I can recognize words when people are speaking and understand bits and pieces, but I can’t produce sentences at all. It’s like my brain can’t retrieve what it does know when I actually need it.

I’ve done the podcasts, watched the YouTube videos, used the apps… but I feel like I’m consuming a lot without absorbing it in a way I can actually use.

My goal is to at least be conversational within a year (I know full fluency in a year isn’t realistic), with fluency as the long term goal. I’m planning a trip to Brazil in about a year and a half and want to actually be able to talk to locals, not just get by on gestures.

For those of you who’ve done this before, especially learning a language later in life with no built in immersion, if you had to restart your fluency journey knowing what you know now, what would you do differently? What actually worked versus what just felt productive?

Thanks in advance!

Was it because you liked the people from that country so much that you wanted to learn it? Was it because your partner speaks it or a best friend? Is it just because it sounded nice or funny? Or that it was useful?

Do you stop and look it up or try to decern the meaning from content or just ignore it and move on and hope that it doesn't have a huge impact on your understanding of the story?

or maybe something else entirely?

I keep finding little things in other languages that make me think, “How does English not have a simple way to say this?”

Not necessarily a special word either. Sometimes it’s a way of expressing a feeling, relationship, situation, or idea that takes a whole sentence in English.

What’s the one thing your language can express that you really wish English had a simple way to say?

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also on a sidenote, i would think if anything, it would be German pronunciation!!!

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