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by 4ad 3569 days ago
> Acquiring languages isn't about going through books and studying [...] People acquire languages, they don't study them.

I know. Absolutely agree.

> There's a pretty good popular-science book on the topic, Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language, by Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuk (MIT Press, 2015).

Thanks, I will check it out.

> Is your main problem comprehension or production?

I think my main problem is production.

> If you've been living in a German-speaking country for 5 years, your passive knowledge of German is probably better than you think.

You might be right, I know a lot of words. When it comes to cooking stuff, sometimes I know words my german-speaking friends don't know (I like to cook and buy lots of less-than-usual ingredients).

But I can't create meaningful sentences.