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Friday Fun Thread for August 18, 2023

Be advised: this thread is not for serious in-depth discussion of weighty topics (we have a link for that), this thread is not for anything Culture War related. This thread is for Fun. You got jokes? Share 'em. You got silly questions? Ask 'em.

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From my very imperfect experience, I think that Spanish is a language where early on you can get away with focusing heavily on drilling vocabulary and grammer as the pronunciation is fairly simple (it's hard to sound like a native of course but it's easy to be understood). They do talk very quickly though so you'll want to add some listening practice in also.

French on the other hand, you won't understand anything and you won't be understood if you haven't had a lot of exposure to how it sounds. I'm at a pretty good reading level for French but, unlike Spanish, improvements in reading and writing aren't helping my conversation get any more fluid, it only gets better with direct practice.