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I loved the way Mickey Thomas completely changed direction in his career, following:

Thanks. Good to hear a positive story. I went to school in the 70's / early 80's when Latin was not taught at all. But some of my peers in the same boat, mostly girls, were naturals at learning modern foreign languages and became fluent in French, German and then one of them in Chinese at...

How are you getting on with German? Dabbling, I found the verb rules (and non rules), and the logic of sentence construction often being the opposite of English, the main challenges.

That works well with building a vocabularly of nouns.

Will Self wrote an article on this, where he could never get a grip of French, no matter what method he tried. In the end he enrolled on a Berlitz course and cracked it, at last! https://www.theguardian.com/education/2010/mar/23/will-self-learns-french