A nice little thing to keep in mind if you have trouble with languages...

I took up Russian about half a year ago and last night during my first conversation on the phone with my tutor I was frustrated. Even though I had no problems with my grammar, I could hear the mistakes on the phone, I had problems with words and not being able to say everything I wanted to say. "This is ridiculous. I've been practicing for half a year and I'm still this far behind?" I thought.<br><br>And I explained to my tutor that I had far more problems in the language than with any other language I was learning and she just laughed and told me "Well, Russian is a Slavic language after all."<br><br>A bit taken aback by just her laughter I asked her what she meant and she explained that the human brain takes about 24 years to be able to speak its native language fluently.<br><br>She had made her point and I was just stunned at how little I actually knew and could understand.<br><br>It made me feel better and I was able to talk a lot more without worrying about the mistakes.<br><br>Maybe it's because I'm young and haven't learned many languages, but I just wanted to share this since it made me feel better.