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Bryn Robinson's avatar

Das ist sehr gut, Rebecca!! I feel all this...because it’s HARD trying to maintain a language when you rarely hear it at home. Immersion like you did is crucial.

The job I’m in now, 90% of my team is francophone, so team meetings are a flow to and from English and French. My anxiety and searching the caverns of my brain for the right vocabulary catches my own French responses in my throat, despite understanding them all well. (They know I understand, they’re not being ignorant, and I just need to get over being afraid of making mistakes and sounding like a knob 😂)

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Terry Freedman's avatar

Great post, and should be required reading for language students. I learnt really useful french at school: la plume de ma taunt 9r something like that, and fermez votre bouche, which I seemed to get a lot

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