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I have always been a poor speller, so I have a handy dictionary app

pick up a new tongue

But then I would discover a new and totally different topic, and I would dive into that.

Je connais aussi un peu du taïwanais, du cantonais, de l'espéranto

Low learning curve

Do you study Spanish at school?

Basically you need both speaking practice and grammatical study to become fluent in another language

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I can get by in German

Je me débrouille en allemand.

You only need to charge yourself up

Peter tasted the wine (that) his mother bought for himPeter tasted the wine that/*() had cost only 12$.

"That" is a conjunction in this type of sentence. (In "the cat that jumped over the wall", it is a relative pronoun.) It is in general OK to leave out the conjunction "that" now and then, as long as no ambiguity arises.

The easy way to tell which is technically correct is to substitute he and him for who and whom, then rearrange the word order to see which sounds right.“Who were you speaking to?” becomes “You were speaking to he” — which is clearly incorrect.

I could barely utter the words

Defenderse en un idioma no es nada dificil, pero dominarlo, eso ya requiere mucho tiempo y trabajo

One of the greatest challenges of learning a foreign language is figuring out how to talk and write like an actual person