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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"
I can imagine! Last time I was in spain I ditched the translator app and tried to communicate with my hands because by the time I was able to write something I felt that the other person had switched topics 3 times.