Tag: Comprehensible

I’ve been studying Chinese Mandarin for about six years now and a good part of those years consisted of struggling to get pass the intermediate slump. While I was amassing new vocabulary and grammar, they ultimately meant nothing when I could barely comprehend native speakers. Determined...

In September I began to study Brazilian Portuguese. Since then I have read over 115,000 words and listened to over 70 hours of Portuguese. This has helped me make faster progress in a foreign language than I ever thought possible. In school I was not good at languages. I was a smart kid, but when...