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1. jdw64 · 1789830343 · focus · HN ↗

   The biggest obstacle to learning a foreign language is that it's so much slower and more frustrating than using your native language, right? Compared to your native-language typing speed, even English typing speed is only half...

   So it's really frustrating. how do you all relieve that frustration?

   1. watwut · 1789850599 · focus · HN ↗

      I watch and read different things. I like different things in foreign language - stuff that is simple or kind of cringy in my own. So I rarely ends up comparing it.

      Second, I rewatch things I liked a lot. Watching them dubbed with more need to rewind makes me notice different stuff about series - how they are composed. So it is a bonus.

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