I'm Not the Only One Out Here: There Are Others With Struggles

As I've gone about chatting with people using my languages, I continually mess up with regards to the grammar. Grammar is easily the portion of learning languages that causes the most struggle for me. As much as you would think vocabulary would be a big limiter, it usually isn't. Even if I don't know an exact word I can explain and describe it to a point that my conversation partner can figure out the missing word. For me, being able to structure a sentence correctly to make sense is a bigger struggle; do you put the adjective before or after the noun?

In all reality, it doesn't matter too much. If somebody said, "I ate a big meal." or "I ate a meal big." I would understand them either way. The main point is to speak the words because the more you use the language, the better you will become as speaking it and more comfortable overall.

When other language learners try to speak with me in English and mess up just a tad, I still understand them. I'm never frustrated with them for saying something wrong. I shouldn't be so hard on myself when it comes to the grammar. Every time I say something incorrectly, I feel embarrassed and want to apologize and yet on the other side, I never feel as though they should feel that way.

Last week I was chatting with one of my friends on a call and we started discussing how my Arabic was progressing. She, an Iraqi, was actually able to relate to some of the struggles that I have with learning the language. As I've mentioned many a times, the dialects can be very different from various locations. It was reassuring to learn that even other Arabic speakers struggle with different dialects. I learned when a Moroccan dialect is being spoken on TV there are Arabic subtitles provided to help understand them. They literally have subtitles of the same language that is being spoken. Knowing that native speakers struggle with the dialects was a very wonderful thing to hear.

Anyways, here is a short little bit of me talking about whatever comes to mind. It may not be factually accurate but instead I'm hoping to say a few things with no real plan of what I say. Let's see what happens!

Until next time.