Get_Off_My_WLAN

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Both are possible. I got to N2 in one year as a full-time student in Japan by studying (school + at home) around 6-8 hours per day. People outside of Japan don't get as many chances to actually use the language, so the same amount of study of course might yield less in that case.

  Most westerners take 2-3 years (3-4 hours per day) to get to N2, which is reasonable. So my hours are about the same, just I crammed two years into one (because I really needed to).

  Whereas many Chinese speakers tend to pass it in less than a year of getting to Japan because they already have a huge head start on kanji knowledge.

  The relationship with languages you already know changes things a lot. The proximity and opportunities to use it are really important too, I think.

  Practically every European I've met has pretty good English, I've noticed that. But most people in Japan I've met don't. Many, if not, most of them studied it in school. They also get tested on it as part of university entrance exams. But most of them don't need it much outside of those contexts, so I don't blame them for not being able to speak English either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people don't really understand how many total hours of purposeful learning and actual usage is needed to become proficient.

  For Japanese, it typically takes people who can't already read 漢字 about 1,325 hours to reach N3 (conversational), and 2,200 for N2 (roughly business). That means if you want to get to N2 in only one year, expect to study like five to eight hours a day.

  So don't feel too bad if you can't.

  Or do, and use that frustration to motivate your study.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you drive the same roads every day, you can start to pick up on the pattern and timings. It's when it turns yellow in those times you feel almost too close to stop comfortably but too far to feel you'll make it that people will "squeeze the lemon" and accelerate through that yellow light, not that I recommend it.

  Also glad I don't have to drive anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing poster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The name's Bond, J

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨International travel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I met a Russian student studying abroad who was very intent on staying out of Russia as much as possible because he's aware of how messed up things are. Had very a good sense of humor. His jokes about Putin and the Russian government would be enough to get people there thrown in jail.