Oh man, I know exactly how you feel, I've been in your shoes all my life :) I live in Romania but my first language in Hungarian. Although I speak Romanian well, I'm never going to be perfect, I know I'm making mistakes no matter how hard I try. I've been in your shoes many times and I know how it feels. Just go easy on yourself, you at least have an excuse :) I was born here, Romanian is the official language, so I should make no mistakes.
Your daughter on the other hand is a lucky young lady. Make sure she learns English very well, it's going to be a big help for her. Good luck! :)
Taraz cannot function in Finnish. It's not a question of speaking it perfectly.
If STEEM moons and Taraz can live on it, perhaps I will run a class for his benefit here.
Can I pay in upvotes?
A delegation will be accepted, too. I need something to reward you with for correct answers. lol
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Lol when Steem moons. Maybe Taraz will hire you as his sidekick but it is true what you are saying. To understand the language you have to think in that language as well. You can't just be translating in your head every time.
That's not what I was saying, but yeah, it's clumsy to run everything through an intermediate language. How many actually do that even when they're learning a foreign language?
I remember when I was learning Afrikaans I translated everything in my head and didn't think in that language.I don't think I will be able to do that either and this is what holds me back on the language front.
Hahahahahaha running everything through an intermediate language translating everything in my head is exactly what I do here all the time.
Gosh! gotta think how to get more upvotes to gather enough steem to purchase and delegate that clumsy task to some smart AI or Bot to give a deserved rest to my messy & extravagant brain. };)
Although I don't harbor any hope that these gadgets may be smart enough as to speak my delightful spanglish also. :D
English will be one of her mother tongues.