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Avoid This Big Language Learning Mistake I Made: How Beginners Can Accelerate Fluency
Let go of perfection, trust the process, and watch your language skills grow faster by accepting what you don’t know.
When I first started learning Japanese, I made plenty of mistakes, but one stands out.
I struggled with the ambiguity of language learning.
I always needed to understand everything, down to the finest detail. This obsession with clarity became my biggest hurdle, slowing down my progress more than any grammar mistake.
Everything Had to Be Clear (Easy)
Thinking back on it now, letting Japanese be ambiguous would have sped up my acquisition. If I’d accepted that I wouldn’t understand everything right away, I would have been able to focus on building a solid foundation in the language.
This is a key lesson to take to heart for anyone beginning their own language-learning journey.
Languages are full of nuance. Words can have different meanings depending on the context, and grammar can bend to fit different situations.
Japanese has an added layer of complexity in Kanji. The Chinese characters adapted into the…
