I think you should be angrier at your mother dude.
That's kinda fucked up. You can still learn, just use Comprehensible Input resources (like Dreaming Spanish) instead of the "blue-pill" crap like classes.
You either gotta learn it young when your neurons are still nice and plastic or put in lots and lots of work and maintain it
No offense, but I despise this kind of essentialist thinking, that once you're past a certain age it's all over. It's the way languages are taught. Comprehensible Input is where it's at. Take a look at the first five min of video link nested below (the bot removed the comment b/c it had a youtube link). You can watch the rest of the vid but the main part is from the first five min.
It's sad that so many "leftists" here are super knowledgeable about politics/history yet when it comes to languages turn into complete dumb-dumbs and say stupid shit like "oH WeLl uNlEsS YoU LeArN It aS A KiD MiGhT As wElL GiVe uP hurrrrr durrrrrr!!!" It's not like CI has been some sort of hidden gem, people have used it to learn languages like Japanese for the last decade on youtube and have produced great results. Another reason why I have absolutely zero hope in the west and have resigned myself that it will become ultra fascist.
Comprehensible immersion is the key in my opinion, where you slowly build up your input ability.
You either gotta learn it young when your neurons are still nice and plastic or put in lots and lots of work and maintain it
No offense, but I despise this kind of essentialist thinking, that once you're past a certain age it's all over. It's the way languages are taught. Comprehensible Input is where it's at. Just watch the first five min of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUc_W3xE1w&pp=ygUkc3RlcGhlbiBrcmFzaGVuIGNvbXByZWhlbnNpYmxlIGlucHV0 (you can watch the rest if you want, but the crux is in the first five min)
My mind doesn't work that way and I really tried.
Look into comprehensible input, go to the Dreaming Spanish youtube channel and start from the super beginner playlist (or whatever it's called)
It's amazing how someone can be so "red-pilled" when it comes to politics (the ill effects of capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, etc.) yet be so "blue-pilled" when it comes to language learning. I've watched soooo many on this site completely go the blue-pill route when it comes to language learning, such as saying "Hey guys I'm going to start learning Chinese! I'm doing Duolingo!" Might as well learn about socialism from AOC because it's that fucking ridiculous.
For fucks sake no investigation no right to speak. It's pretty clear that the standard approach of textbooks/classes is pretty whack. As others have noted in this thread, Comprehensible Input is pretty much the red pill, at least when it comes to input (output is another matter).
Also there's some weird TERF-style essentialism in this thread along the lines of "if you're not a little child then your brain is fucked, sorry old geezer!!!" Once again, look at all the people who have gotten massive success with Comprehensible Input in this thread, with things like Dreaming Spanish.
No wonder Global South leftists make fun of us, we can't even do something they take for granted (knowing more than one language).
if we could treat it, we would, and then we’d call it a disease.
Bingo
Nah bro just let them die bro.... It'll be more "beautiful" that way 🤣
I'm dying.... LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL