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A Quick Reality Check
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A Quick Reality Check

How long should it really take you to learn a language?

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BowTiedOdin
Feb 05, 2024
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Let's do a quick story time to illuminate why I approach languages the way that I do. It all started when I was a wee 18 year old who recently moved to Belgium. At age 17 I moved to Costa Rica, alone, to study at the UCR (Universidad de Costa Rica) in San Jose.

My hosts spoke 0 English, which was great because I spoke 2 years of public education Spanish…

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