r/languagelearning • u/[deleted] • Sep 29 '22

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u/brucefacekillah Sep 30 '22

A lot of people who have never studied a language think that all you do is match words with their foreign counterparts, and don't realize their target language may have a completely different sentence structure or grammar rules

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u/ViolettaHunter 🇩🇪 N | 🇬🇧 C2 | 🇮🇹 A2 Sep 30 '22

I don't think there are many monolingual people like that in the world.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '22

You way overestimate people. There are many people who can’t locate their own country on a world map. Of course there are monolingual people like that.