I’ve found that a lot of my friends can understand a language, but lack the ability to read, speak, or write it, resulting in a lot of strange conversations where their parents speak a different language to them and they reply in English. How does this even happen?
In: Biology
If someone is describing a play uses the word “soliloquy” I will remember my high school English class well enough to understand the sentence.
If someone asks me “hey, what’s that word for when someone in a play says their internal thoughts out loud?” I would have no idea and never remember that one word from high school English class.
So it’s like that.
ALSO: It is easy to understand someone using proper grammar and conjugation (as in knowing to say I am and not I are). It is much harder to actually intuitively know how to use all those rules.
ALSO: For many people, they get mocked relentlessly for not speaking ’right’ which unfortunately discourages them from trying and building fluency. They get lots of practice listening though.
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