• Luxyr@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    I’m the opposite with Japanese, at least. I can construct sentences and know what to say, but when native speakers talk to me, I just can’t follow well at all.

    • sh__@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      How did you learn it? I’m actually curious because that would probably explain why.

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 hours ago

        My guess would be textbook language vs reality slang.
        So OP might be able to listed to a newspaper but would loose context in a slang-heavy tv show
        Maybe also a case of dialect vs standard language