I know this feeling all too well as a student of Arabic!

As for me, my Japanese was awful. For my first 8 years in Japan, I had been teaching in an all-English environment with very little need to speak Japanese. I studied on my own, which resulted in my learning archaic words and expressions that only appear in dictionaries. I made loads of mistakes.

How I Succeeded — and Failed — to Raise Bilingual Children in Japan

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Diane Neill Tincher