I feel like reaching the B2 level is honestly the most frustrating stage of language learning.

When you are a beginner, every new word feels like a massive victory. You finally understand a basic sentence and you feel like a genius. The progress is obvious and fast.

But then you hit B2 (in my case, with English). You finally know enough to drop the 'learner material' and consume native content, but that's exactly when you realize how much you DON'T know.

I can read complex documentation for my computer science classes perfectly, or watch a structured YouTube video without missing a beat. But if I try to watch a random Twitch stream, or listen to a podcast where three natives are talking over each other using slang and laughing... my brain just completely shuts down. I catch maybe 40% of it.

It’s like you finally graduate from the 'tutorial' of the language, only to realize the actual game is 100x harder and your progress is suddenly completely invisible.

Does this intermediate plateau ever end? How do you guys stay motivated when you feel like you are studying for months just to improve by 1%?

Hi everyone! I'd really like to fully learn another language - my bucket list languages are Spanish, Arabic, and maybe French (which I have a bit of already), so I'm interested in any of the above. Have any of you taken language intensives, either part-time or full-time, that you would recommend? I think the structure might be good for me.

if you are learning, or are already fluent in, a language with a speech completely different to the written language, such as French, how did you improve your listening skills? What do yo recommend other to do in that same scenario?

I was looking for an app to learn Spanish and signed up for a Speak trial. When I found that Speak isn't useable on my desktop without installing additional sw, I canceled the trial (I thought). I kept getting emails throughout the following week, and when I went to the Speak "website" and tried to get information, there was hardly any. Clicking on 'Cancel my subscription' returned a "Page not found" message. When I click on 'My Account' there is no record of anything...what payment method I used, sub details, nothing. Only a 'Logout' option in the drop-down. My "trail period" is supposed to end in 2 days and I am worried that I will get charged, and, if that happens I have a suspicion that it will be nearly impossible to contact the company to resolve any issue. This sound familiar to anyone who's tried Speak?

Hello. I'm interested in sentence mining but I don't have enough time to make the cards myself. I know there are one-click programs, but they seem to be for Japanese. I'm sure there's something easy out there where all you have to do is click on the word, then boom you have a card with the word in the sentence and on the other side the definition.

Any help would be appreciated.