I’ve been learning Greek since the start of the year. I got an ‘excellent/distinction’ grade in the official proficiency test in May at A1 level, and I would say that now I’m skirting A2 level. (My predicament applies to all language learning, which is why I’m posting here)
Anyways, now that I’m trying to improve my grammar, especially on word-pairings, and things like στο/στη/στην/στης, το/τα/τον etc, I’ve become highly aware of how much I don’t know. I understand it better than it used to but I find it difficult and it’s now affecting my confidence where I’m making more mistakes if I try to do it right.
On the other hand, my reading/listening are excellent for my level, and I find my active vocabulary is definitely quite wide. I go to meet ups around 2-3 times a month, a weekly lesson, and a tutor twice a month. I also do things like going to Greek owned restaurants. Basically, I get a lot of opportunities to speak.
I really want to improve my grammar issues and I don’t think it’s something that will happen without deliberate work. But I don’t want to lose all my confidence.
The things that have worked particularly well for me with my learning so far are - Ling Q, private tutor, meet ups, listening to stuff. I don’t and never have found textbook learning interesting.
I have to get a textbook for my class but the main reason I go to my class is for the camaraderie of meeting other learners.
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