See title. I’ve been to quite a few local language meetups and saw lots of people IRL who are learning languages: wondering how are y’all doing too

For myself… learning French due to necessity. I am making progress, just veeery slow. I underestimated how difficult it would be (a lot of vocabs between English/French are similar… but the languages themselves are not!)

  • zlatiah@lemmy.worldOP
    6·
    6 days ago

    I… don’t think I need motivation when my employer, my landlord, and even my government are legally obligated to establish all legal communications in French (facepalm)

    I also suffered from motivation before moving here though, so I’d love to know as well

      • zlatiah@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        6 days ago

        Brussels. Officially bilingual but most people speak French. I’m legally allowed to get things in Dutch (the other official language) but I know even less Dutch than French… I promised myself to start learning Dutch once I get to B1-B2 French

        Due to historical reasons language is… a sensitive issue here. And since I work in academia (which were at the center of said language issue), my employer insists on communicating everything in French. For example I think half of the HR and IT teams don’t speak English

        • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
          2·
          5 days ago

          I see, the situation in montreal is fairly similar, so I assumed it was quebec, language is also a very sensitive issue here.