So today, while doing my daily French practice, it suddenly hit me that despite knowing enough language to effortlessly read a lot of stuff that gets posted online, I still get about 20% when people eat away three out of five letters while speaking quickly. I still don’t get many things spoken on talk shows, though I can understand things spoken reasonably fast, but not at the speed people usually use for extremely informal speech. Same thing goes for slang: I know some of the words/expressions, but not nearly enough to pass as a fluent speaker.
It always gets me extremely annoyed, but today it got me thinking: is it even reasonable to expect to attain a fully conversational near-native level without living in the country for some time or being immersed in the media? I can speak fluent English thanks to the fact that I grew up with it, have English-speaking friends and my go-to media is in the language, but French is really an outlier in this sense to me... I guess I want to hear your opinions on how do you keep your third+ languages in check and actually working. For me this is still a difficult thing to do.
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