> Acquiring languages isn't about going through books and studying [...] People acquire languages, they don't study them.
I know. Absolutely agree.
> There's a pretty good popular-science book on the topic, Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language, by Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuk (MIT Press, 2015).
Thanks, I will check it out.
> Is your main problem comprehension or production?
I think my main problem is production.
> If you've been living in a German-speaking country for 5 years, your passive knowledge of German is probably better than you think.
You might be right, I know a lot of words. When it comes to cooking stuff, sometimes I know words my german-speaking friends don't know (I like to cook and buy lots of less-than-usual ingredients).
I know. Absolutely agree.
> There's a pretty good popular-science book on the topic, Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language, by Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuk (MIT Press, 2015).
Thanks, I will check it out.
> Is your main problem comprehension or production?
I think my main problem is production.
> If you've been living in a German-speaking country for 5 years, your passive knowledge of German is probably better than you think.
You might be right, I know a lot of words. When it comes to cooking stuff, sometimes I know words my german-speaking friends don't know (I like to cook and buy lots of less-than-usual ingredients).
But I can't create meaningful sentences.