I moved to Japan for 6 months as a beginner. While I did enjoy my time overall, I ended up frustrated with the language and spent more time just studying on my own. It would have been a more fulfilling trip if I learned for 1-2 years prior to going. Now I need to go again.
Moving to your target country as a beginner in a language is largely counter productive. You need comprehensible input, heavy dictionary use, and repeat listening. Native speakers are only helpful if they baby you. Online resources are by far more effective.
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Yeah, there is this prevailing belief that you can absorb language through some sort of osmosis, but its really not true. Especially with asian languages. Maybe moving to Mexico with a few beginning highschool courses would work - but def not China or Japan.
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This is especially compounded by the fact that our mother tongue also happens to be the lingua franca of the world. You arent thrown into the deep end in the same way that an immigrant to the usa is.
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