It's not so bad when you are immersed in the foreign language, which was my hobby before, so I enjoyed it, although it was challenging and I felt uncomfortable if I couldn't follow. I gets better all the time.Originally Posted by Rtyom
If you ask me how - listening to TV and radio apart from the talking helped a lot. Quite difficult were place and people's names, addresses, especially on the phone and when they spelled them out I couldn't write fast enough It was a matter of survival - if you can't speak - you can't eat (can't get a job, rent a flat, etc.) but I was keen, so overcame initial difficulties. I know lots of people who came with almost zero English and they picked it up pretty quickly.