Not the majority at all, but some people like me do it for fun :)
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I did a mix of talking together with some basic grammar.
Right now I am super fluent in German but still make mistakes. Just the damn articles are a pain.
When I hear someone speaking Spanish, my native language, and says a 10 word sentence, everything correct except of an article, I immediately think "oh shit, that's how I sound in German!", haha. Because even if almost everything was perfect, it sounds off.
I could have written these words in German but it would have been much harder. As I said, I am much more fluent in German than in English although my English is waaay better. I can read a book and write things down; in German? Hard :o
Motivation is really important. I work at Lieferando/Takeaway (courier with the bigass ugly backpack) and I am in charge of showing the workflow to the new hires.
It doesn't stop to amaze me how many Syrians who fled the war can speak soooo good. There's all kind of cases.
Half of the people hate the country, complain about it and hate the language. So many of them have been here for 5-10 years and their German sucks or just basically doesn't exist.
No easy answer but you really have to like the thing and try to talk. Retrieval, retrieval!
I'm in the same situation as you and this is what my daughter's school uses.
Edit: ahh, I see you are also in Leipzig! :)
Is it this[1] person, perhaps?
To read a novel or to write some things it is nice but still so slow to find something.
Asking as a long time user and at a time even DDG evangelist.
Cheers!
The experience itself is not to be disdained and not every trip has to be like this.
And one day he just had to try it and feel what all these stories were about. He started crying immediately. We went to the hospital and came back rather quick. It wasn't so bad, just had to have a bandage for a couple of days.
Some weeks later he does it again. On purpuse.
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I tell my brother and he answers: "I kind of understand him. Sometimes I want to do it too."
Not saying this "addiction" does not exist. I like some "drugs" and smoke and my phone is by far the worst and hardest to manage/quit.
About the floating attention thing, that's a very strange generalization ("analysts don't pay attention"). It is about treating all the "material" equally (ie without preconceptions).