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Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]
end up having no practical reason to use it in their daily lives and it atrophies.
Yep. If you don't use it you lose it. Many students once they've left school, unless they're working in the tourism sector maybe, or studying at University to teach English, might hardly ever encounter English speakers on a regular basis.
I spent a year working in France many moons ago and was fluent but now I would definitely struggle in conversation. Last time I was in France I picked up a newspaper and was happy to find I could still read French pretty well :)
it got a lot better after a couple of meetings as the knowledge wasn't gone, just dormant and needed to be wakened.
That's interesting. Nice to think my French might be lying dormant somewhere.
when I came to UK I had problems understanding people.
Might be due to variations in dialect or the speed with which people speak. Not everyone speaks clearly and depending where some people are from, I have a job to understand them!
