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by jeena 4669 days ago
There is one big issue here which I'd like to address. People feel uncomfortable pointing out the mistakes you make, so they never tell you that you're making the same mistake over and over again.

I try to ask people, at least those who I am in contact with a lot, to tell me if they hear when I do a mistake, sadly most of the time they still don't, either because they forget that I asked them to do so or they just don't want to interrupt the normal conversation flow.

The only one who does it quite good is my daughter, Swedish is her native language so she points out what I do wrong when she hears me speaking it. I assume that is because I have been doing the same with her German since she was 2 years old, so it doesn't feel weird to her.