Certain things aren't meant for certain people to learn, unfortunately. I spent four and a half years failing to grasp three basic chords on a guitar (could never get G, C and D to sound right) and yet my first bass lesson today was the single most optimistic thing I had ever attempted to learn.Originally Posted by Scarmiglione
This is making me feel guilty...
I am trying SO HARD to learn French on my own. I have been playing the GBA rereleases en français, but I have like no confidence....
Despite being confident (albeit not fluent anymore, thanks to lack of practice) in French and German, I know for a fact that I cannot, and never will be able to learn Russian. My brain simply refuses to take it in for some reason. Maybe the case is the same with you for French, and maybe it'd be worth learning another language, unless French is of particular use for you.
Alternatively, try reading up on as many aspects of your own language's grammar as possible. The sooner you can differentiate perfect tense from imperfect tense, or between nominative, accusative, genitive and dative nouns in your own language, verb conjugation, adjective declension (actually there's no adjective declension in English, bad example) and so on, you'll find that almost any other language will welcome you with open arms... would you believe that knowing the four cases, something I had to learn for German (they exist in English, but are much less apparent to native speakers), will make learning Japanese easier?
From what I've seen:
wa = nominative particle; it connects the subject to the verb.
ga = accusative particle; seems to connect the object to the verb.
no = genitive particle; no roughly translates back into English as the 's in the middle of Emma's piano.
I'm sure I identified a dative particle at one point but I forgot which it was)
Simple, straightforward exposure to a language won't be enough to learn it either. You're gonna have to find a way to absorb some cold, hard theory too.
Believe me, I know how you feel. Seeing someone pick up a guitar and play it still makes me feel sick.
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