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Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.
Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.
they help you get a base to work off of, but yes, eventually you do need to branch out beyond memorization/drilling and get used to "feeling" the language
do whatever keeps you motivated and enjoying it, that'll help you the most :p
quizzes can be nice later on to get an idea of where you might want to work on things more specifically, but there should be a lot more natural interaction with the language
yeah comics and stuff just seem like an adequate way of just getting the feel of things, honestly the rules are pretty simple if you just read instead of try to memorize them in drills before you read in general
i dunno man just reading natural dialogue and hearing it feels like 10 times as useful
im not sure if private tutoring is still necessary
The rules are simple but you’re not guaranteed to remember them and often times you would instead fall back on what your native language did which might be wrong. I used to have this issue with the imparfait/passé composé where I tended to favour the latter because both tenses mapped onto the English simple past so when I had a sentence my mind went to English which then forced me to go passé composé which isn’t always right. Drills are supposed to make sure that you can make a split-second decision and have the right outcome so you don’t stutter and/or stay silent for a while as your mind tries to choose.