▲ 11 r/LearningEnglish+2 crossposts

How can I really move from B1/B2 to C2 (reach fluency) level fast?

I see a lot of videos on YouTube where people say you can become fluent in 6 months, 12 months, just by watching videos you like, by doing things you like, in a lazy way. I‘m starting to cast doubt on that, because when learning a language you can’t just do things you like, like anything in life. You have to do the hard and dull work as well. It takes time. You can’t just learn as if it was your native language, because we often know less in our native language, and speak it incorrectly. I‘m suspecting these people are not really fluent and proficient.

I also feel like other people have a weaker and lower vision of fluency. I‘m French, and here being fluent (« parler couramment / etre bilingue »), means speaking it almost like your mother tongue, you don’t just get by, or can converse with a few mistakes, no, you have to make almost no mistakes, and be accurate.

My goal is to understand almost everything I watch or hear, read, be able to speak naturally, confidently, and fluently, almost like i do in French. Which C level do I need for that (C1 or C2) ? And how can I reach this level from B1/B2 realistically? What resources, what methods do I need to use, what do I need to learn ?

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u/Electron_libre777 — 12 days ago
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How can I become fluent in English without learning professional and academic language ?

According to the CEFR levels, advanced levels C1/C2 are considered fluent. Yet a lot of people say they‘re not useful except if you want to use your TL (in my case,English) in academic and professional settings, because most of the grammar, vocabulary you learn are hardly used in daily speech. B2 seems to be the sweet spot. I don‘t intend to use English in professional/academic settings, so I just need vocab to communicate in daily life, basically to say everything i‘d say in my native language. Therefore I think I‘m going to continue self learning because every course at my level right now (B2) is focused on business language. I want to find a way to speak English like my mother tongue (not the accent but fluently) without learning all these pointless words, that I don’t even use in my native language. What are your thoughts on that ? Any recommendations ?

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u/Electron_libre777 — 17 days ago

Why is my iCloud always saturated whereas my iPad‘s storage isn’t full?

I can’t even create new notes in Apple notes

u/Electron_libre777 — 22 days ago
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My Apple Pencil hasn’t been working for 3 days

A few days ago, my Apple pencil gen 2 stopped working after falling on the floor. My iPad Pro recognizes it, it is still connected to it via Bluetooth, I can even charge it and see the battery percentage of the Pencil, but yet it doesn’t respond when I try to use it on the screen. I turned off my iPad and restarted it, disconnected my Apple pencil then connected it again via Bluetooth, but nothing changes. The tip is not broken. I waited for a few days but it‘s still not working. I don’t understand. Is it because the transducer is broken (yet it is not curved) ? What can I do? Is my Apple Pencil completely broken ?

The tip

The transducer

https://preview.redd.it/1uqnl34psrfh1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03fe19c9dd8711c5fb86dce3cff37be1938dc21b

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u/Electron_libre777 — 24 days ago

My Apple Pencil hasn’t been working for 3 days

A few days ago, my Apple pencil gen 2 stopped working after falling on the floor. My iPad recognizes it, it is still connected to it via Bluetooth, I can even charge it and see the battery percentage of the Pencil, but yet it doesn’t respond when I try to use it on the screen. I turned off my iPad and restarted it, disconnected my Apple pencil then connected it again via Bluetooth, but nothing changes. The tip is not broken. I waited for a few days but it‘s still not working. I don’t understand. Is it because the transducer is broken (yet it is not curved) ? What can I do? Is my Apple Pencil completely broken ?

The tip

The transducer

https://preview.redd.it/1uqnl34psrfh1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03fe19c9dd8711c5fb86dce3cff37be1938dc21b

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u/Electron_libre777 — 25 days ago

New to Reddit, I‘d like to know what’s the fastest way to gain karmas

I just signed up on Reddit today and I read a bit of the beginner guide. And i‘d like to know what’s the fastest way to gain karmas in order to be able to participate in subreddits of my interests because they usually require a certain number of karmas. For people who have now a lot of karmas and are now able to participate in any subreddit, what did you do to gain those and how much time did it take you ?

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u/Electron_libre777 — 28 days ago