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The thing is, even though I may be able to speak, read, and write it ... it'll never be like Spanish or English where it comes totally natural to me. I mean, it's not like I'm translating in my head when I see/hear/read French, but I make a connection (sort of like latching on to see the cognates) to Spanish. My mother can speak English very well, but it's not like when she speaks Spanish. I'm sure you're not as comfortable when speaking in German or Italian as you are in Romanian.The key, and sometimes the only way to do it, is to live in a place where it is widely spoken... You can already speak Spanish and English, right? No doubt you can learn another one. You're probably thinking of French...? If that's actually the case, then you shouldn't complain and instead get to work! It's extremely easy - being Romance, it's so thoroughly connected to the other 2 languages that you speak, that you really should have absolutely no problem in becoming fluent. I know, learning a foreign language can get frustrating at times. It can get really frustrating, to the point of giving up. But if what I assumed is actually the case, then you've set out to learn one of the easiest languages in the whole world, for you! So just keep trying.
Hey, if my friend from Japan is 100% fluent in Romanian after 5 years of living there, and if most of the people I know here in Germany are fluent in German (including approximately 1.6564564576 million Turks p), which have a very hard time with an entirely unrelated language), then you can do it too, with a language that has a lexical similarity of over 80% to your native one!!
(and just so you know, the last number is actually not pulled out of my behind )
Just don't give up, it's admittedly painful, but the only way there is.
It's not too late to not make it a murder-suicide dude, looking at your sig!
The thing is, even though I may be able to speak, read, and write it ... it'll never be like Spanish or English where it comes totally natural to me. I mean, it's not like I'm translating in my head when I see/hear/read French, but I make a connection (sort of like latching on to see the cognates) to Spanish. My mother can speak English very well, but it's not like when she speaks Spanish. I'm sure you're not as comfortable when speaking in German or Italian as you are in Romanian.
I have something like 10 right now, so quit complaining.
Morning commute = staring into the sun
Evening commute = staring into the sun