Avoid any "language learning" communities like the goddamn plague as they are infested with SJW horseshit and attention whores. They claim "fluency" when all they can parrot are basic greeting phrases in said language, and they have the mentality that if they claim to be learning 15 languages they are somehow "better" (because if they get ego kibbles from "learning" 1 - they get 15x ego kibbles for "learning" 15). Seek out a couple of native speakers of the language you are wanting to learn, ones who aren't degenerate fuckwits, and communicate with them in said language - use English as least as possible. In a single week you'll learn more than those degenerate fuckwits ever do.
I love learning languages and started a free trial of duolingo. The people trying to "teach me" were condescending sjws who I'd never talk to in real life. Unfortunately, there's not many native speakers in my area so I'm sticking to youtube videos and course learning.
What language are you learning? I might be able to help you depending on what language it is. There's plenty of native speakers online of languages, you just need to weed out the SJW trash.
I'm currently trying to learn to speak and read Russian. My dad lived in Hong Kong for a few years when I was a kid, so I know grade school level Mandarin. I grew up with PA Dutch (corrupted German, essentially) as a second household language. Im fluent in Spanish, but it sucks because I'm surrounded by Puerto Ricans, so I mostly sling insults rather than engage in conversation.
There's a Slavic Orthodox church near me, and I've considered going there to find some native speakers. I test out my mandarin at the chinafood restaurant and it's interesting, I try to do the "Xaioma" thing but I'm not confident in my cadence and pronunciation, so I think I come off as a weeb.
I work on cars for a living and don't have much external interaction with people, so I get heavy into memorization and end up talking to myself a lot. Nobody else in the shop speaks anything other than English. The times I've tried online learning, I didn't feel like I got much out of it. I don't like condescension, or being treated like a child, and learn best from someone with a witty sense of humor. I haven't found those people on mainstream learning sites, but that's my anecdotal experience.
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