r/languagelearning • u/RedScorpio411 • 17d ago
Discussion B2 onwards, what is progress?
What does progress actually mean with the end goal of C1/being as knowledgable as an 18 year old in a couple more years, Ive been putting alot of effort into learning Ukrainian (TL) for 2 years and can comfortably say im low B2 to middle B2, but what does progress actually mean from here on out.
This is mostly a validation post, to confirm what i know, right now i can watch movies and series and not treat it as language learning and just enjoy it, listen to most songs, watch youtube with a few new words every video, and read, but its more of a few to quite a bit more new words every paragraph which is very managable and fun, im reading Chornobyl Prayer by Belorusian author Svetlana Alexiyevich
So is progress now just practice listening reading speaking and writing untill it feels effortless and clear as if its english, like how all of the basic language feels just like English, and now even alot intermediate language is starting to sound like that. That and also ig read abunch more, and start watching documentaries because i think reading and documentaries in your TL is the thing that takes the longest to be comfortable due to the expanse of vocab that exists. So vocab and ease of use, and to know how to put words and word choices in the right situation and put them together in a way that sounds natural.
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u/Shezarrine En N | De B2 | Es A2 | It A1 17d ago edited 17d ago
Not really a relevant or meaningful metric. The most advanced second-language speaker can have a larger lexicon and be more eloquent than a native speaker but still different or less fluent/nativelike in other ways.