
I knew I’d never sound like a native. But shouldn’t I be much better than this? PARIS — When Notre-Dame burst into flames, I turned on the French TV news and realized that I had little vocabulary for either fires or churches. Whole sentences about collapsing spires were unintelligible to me.
from Pocket https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/opinion/contributors/learning-french-in-middle-age.html
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