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How has learning a language as an adult helped you to learn about a culture / gain new perspective?
(sopuli.xyz)
I personally feel like I understand German-speaking people better the more I study the language.
E.g. my experience was that they are generally good listeners because their language has a sentence structure which forces the listener to wait for the most important information at the end of a sentence.
Bad Denglish to demonstrate:
"I have yesterday night... at the football field.... together with friends ... (dude get to the point) had a beer"
That was pretty much my experience. I went to Argentina with very little Spanish, and then got the chance to go back again a few years later with much better Spanish, and yeah, it felt like a door had opened to experiences that just weren't available to me before. Even something as simple as heading to the store to get some milk and bread was radically different.
I can 100% relate.