Welcome to the Dead Linguists Society
You tried. The language died anyway.
You bought the books. You downloaded the apps. You meant it, every single time — and you still don’t know why fluency never came. Join the club: most of us are in exactly the same boat. This is where we laugh about it. Or cry about it. Both are allowed. Eight questions will tell you how your language died — and what would actually bring it back. I can’t promise you’ll get fluent. I can promise one of the two.
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Every one of these mindsets is fixed by the same shift: learning to think idiomatically instead of translating. That shift — and the method behind it — is the whole subject of Away with words by Ryan Doherty, the polyglot who taught himself Italian in a week after failing languages at school.
Got a different result than you expected?