I am learning French, and I am at a beginner level. I sometimes ask specific grammar-related questions on french.stackexchange .
However, this is not enough help to motivate me for learning French. I often come across sentences where I want to ask questions about the sentences, in one of the following two ways:
- Where I think I probably understand the grammar construction or meaning of the sentence, but I want a French speaker to confirm that my understanding is in fact correct.
- I want to dialogue about interesting tentative linguistic observations I have about the sentence, but I don't have a specific question. This dialogue motivates me, because it expands my general understanding of the linguistic context/underpinnings of French, English, and other languages, in a way that I could not anticipate with a specific question.
The occasional question in the first case is allowed on French.stackexchange, but it would be inappropriate for me to ask too many of these questions. The open-ended dialogue of the second case is completely prohibited on all stack exchange sites.
However, being able to ask both of these kinds of questions are crucial to my motivation.
I do not have friends or teachers who are consistently willing to discuss these things with me.
Questions:
1. Are there internet resources where it's okay to ask many questions to confirm my understanding of French sentences that I come across?
2. Are there internet resources where it's okay to present my own curious linguistic observations/questions about French and English sentences, and to have linguists give me some of the fuller linguistic understandings that they are reminded of when they read my initial questions?
