Use it or lose it is the truth. I once was fluent in Thai, and almost so in Mandarin, but I was young then, and they both have atrophied to the point that I can only count and use a few basic phrases now. I found then that immersion and trying to get to know the mindset of native speakers was helpful. Syntax that is foreign to an American mind seems to make more sense from its native perspective.

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Brad
PCA Member
Virginia

Pro 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.