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Hi,
I'll be spending the fall semester (and possibly the spring) abroad with a strict language pledge. So I won't be speaking English at all, and all day I'll be studying/speaking a foreign language.
I saw a blog post from someone in the same program saying his English had deteriorated after only a semester of that. Which kind of worries me, because of writing. So I'm wondering: if you're a native English speaker, and have lived in a non-English speaking country for a while, have you noticed any decline in your English abilities?
Have you found a way to prevent this (i.e. reading english books + writing in english for a certain amount of time per week?)
Basically, if you're concentrating on learning or speaking a foreign language but creative writing (in English) is still very important to you, how compatible have you found the two?
Thanks for sharing your experiences
I'll be spending the fall semester (and possibly the spring) abroad with a strict language pledge. So I won't be speaking English at all, and all day I'll be studying/speaking a foreign language.
I saw a blog post from someone in the same program saying his English had deteriorated after only a semester of that. Which kind of worries me, because of writing. So I'm wondering: if you're a native English speaker, and have lived in a non-English speaking country for a while, have you noticed any decline in your English abilities?
Have you found a way to prevent this (i.e. reading english books + writing in english for a certain amount of time per week?)
Basically, if you're concentrating on learning or speaking a foreign language but creative writing (in English) is still very important to you, how compatible have you found the two?
Thanks for sharing your experiences