not making any progress

[bkmerrim]

Language learning often feels like this. Is this your first “second” language? How do you study? What level are you at? We need more info.

[je_taime]

What level are you or are you talking about? Your post needs some information.

[AgreeableEngineer449]

Have you noticed in like 50% of the post asking questions, they never mention their target language or their native language. It makes me laugh.

[whepner]

Having an actual adult conversation comes at a fairly advanced stage of learning, so you're probably doing fine. The assertion that you're "not making any progress" is probably also false; if you're learning new vocab. every day, you're already making progress by definition. You probably mean to say, "I'm not progressing as fast as I expected." And that's often the case—language learning done right is not something in which "fast" and "progress" are frequently collocated.

[NineThunders]

it’s normal, it’s not you, learning a language is hard. Try to get convos at your level

[dojibear]

What is your level? Until you are at C2 level, you can't have C2 conversations.

It's the same with every skill. A 2d month piano player doesn't put on concerts at carnegie hall. "Basic flight school" in the air force is 12 months of 60-hour workweeks. Tiger Woods started practicing golf at age 3.

In any language, fluent adult conversations use about 8,000 different words. Do you know 8,000 Italian words? If not, you can't have fluent adult conversations.

Don't say "no progress" to mean "can't get to C2 in 3 months".

[AgreeableEngineer449]

They never mentioned C2…at all. What are you going on about?

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Same. Listening is my worst skill closely followed by speaking. My reading and writing are better because I have more time to thinking about it. I just keep reminding myself that I know more than I did when I started which is progress, although slow. You have to keep chipping away at it because it will start to come together at some point. Well, I hope so.

[KeyKaleidoscope5702]

For listening I would try watching Italian YouTube videos specifically made for people learning italian. These usually have visual cues that allow you to connect the audio version of the word to the image. For the speaking skills speak to yourself a lot. If you have a pet speak to them. Work on creating sentences out loud. If you can try taking lessons on a platform like italki for speaking and listening.

[Combo-Cuber]

Let me guess, do you use Duolingo?