What is a tool or an area of expertise that you wish you had learned but you have not? Either because you didn't have the time, or the energy, or the opportunity?
I wished I had spent more time sharpening my French skills, but I couldn't (French native speakers or French people are hard to come across where I am at, and I am not particularly the social butterfly type anyway).
As an emerging linguist, I wish had known how to decode any sound produced, right from my first year.But it's unfortunate I was unable to.
Any complex theory or principle that me myself cannot understand.
Language skills are not only valuable when You can speak a language: being able to read a language and/or understand a language spoken is also valuable. It is indeed very difficult to learn to speak a language if You don't have the opportunity to speak it with a native speaker. I wish I had have the opportunity to learn to speak Portuguese, a language I can read with some effort.
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