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learning a new language?
Sometimes I can pick up a word or two here or there and figure out what they are talking about, other times I am clueless! is it the accent of the person speaking? Is my brain not making the connection or are they using more sophesticated words than I can not yet understand? Are they just speaking faster than I can process? Or is this harder than I can deal with?
I am a native speaker of English but am attempting to learn conversational Spanish. I took French in H.S. and Coll. yet I know more Spanish than French at this time.
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- 7 years agoFavorite Answer
It would be a combination of all of those things. When learning a language you first learn the vocabulary/grammar and then you learn the comprehension. This means that your brain can't keep up with the speed and slurring/slang (think about how hard it would be for a foreigner to understand English slang!)
The best way to deal with this is just to immerse yourself. This means watching TV in Spanish, listening to music, hanging out with Speakers of the language you are learning etc. It will come with time!
Source(s): Personal experience - ?Lv 77 years ago
All of those. And several more. What-the-heck language, specifically, are you talking about? ... That would help several experts in this group (not me, but maybe me ...) figure out what you mean by all those things that could be going wrong/ are going wrong / .. for you...
Cheers.
Source(s): native AmE
