How to Start Speaking a New Language

Marcin
5 min readJul 13, 2022
Illustration by the author

A language learning story that is far too common: you learn a language for some time, months or years, but you struggle to say the simplest thing in it. But when you consider how the average language lesson looks, this result is not a surprise.

Most of the language classes I had at school were heavily focused on:

  • reading articles about random topics-rarely about something I…

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Marcin

I program in JavaScript, write about IT & draw illustrations.