It's also especially difficult when the languages are vastly different. Even though French and English have Latin roots they're still way off- just the idea of gendered words is a big mind fuck and you just have to remember them because there's no real internal logic. Then you have adjectives and past participles changing based on gender or number, verb tenses & conjugations change a lot, formal vs informal, etc
I took French from I think grade 4 to 12 but I lived in rural Alberta so I never used it outside of French class. I barely remember any of it, it was hard to remember stuff being young and only having a few months between class, let alone all these years later never using it.
It's also especially difficult when the languages are vastly different. Even though French and English have Latin roots they're still way off- just the idea of gendered words is a big mind fuck and you just have to remember them because there's no real internal logic. Then you have adjectives and past participles changing based on gender or number, verb tenses & conjugations change a lot, formal vs informal, etc
I took French from I think grade 4 to 12 but I lived in rural Alberta so I never used it outside of French class. I barely remember any of it, it was hard to remember stuff being young and only having a few months between class, let alone all these years later never using it.