People that have experienced language attrition of their native language, how difficult was it to relearn your language? And do you have any tips on how to overcome mental blocks and other challenges with it?
If you are learning a new language in general, which techniques work best for you that I can try?
Currently I speak my native language very poorly (about A2 level), but English pretty much fluently. I'm taking lessons and I know native fluent speakers IRL, but it really is a struggle.
@lazerdude I have recently re-learned German, a lot of which I forgot since my childhood (although, based on what you describe in the other posts, I was able to passively use it much more than you in the meantime). I haven’t done much specific to do that, the most important thing was just using it, which was easy, since I moved to a German speaking region. It felt mostly as if the knowledge was in my brain, just very hard to access, which is definitely a different experience than learning from scratch.
One thing that helped in the initial phases was watching a couple documentaries and a TV series. Kinda obvious advice, so this post is mostly about encouragement – it definitely can be done and good luck!
@lazerdude this is a big thing in New Zealand. Te Reo Māori was banned and punished for years, it almost died out. It's recovering now, but many Maori have a complicated relationship with it
I'm not tangata whenua, but you might try blogs like this
@mu Interesting read. While my circumstances are quite different (which I can go into, but it's a bit long), I can see some similarities too. At least the good news is I'm (slowly) improving....
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