Version Française How DO people learn to speak fluently?In my case I moved to France with basically NO French at all, the only remnants of a failed High School O Level were “Je m’appelle, j’habite, and “piscine”!The first months were utter chaos, language just sounded like noise, interference, incoherent syllables. I had the will to learn but it still took me a long time, I wasn’t taking lessons, my source of learning was real world situations, social events, shops and eventually my first job.God knows why they decided to hire me, but after 3 months I’d found a job in an organic logistics warehouse, preparing orders and moving pallets around.Not the most challenging linguistic situation, but I still
How do people learn languages?