Language learners! I need your help!
I’m going into the classroom this week with 8 year olds to introduce them to French and want to impart some wisdom from all of us who have learned more than one language (all languages matter - also open to programming languages!)
What is something you’ve learned through learning a language - that is not about the language itself, but about learning it?
An example follows! 🧵
When I was living in a bilingual English/French household (Katimaviktim over here!), I would speak French more.
That meant more attempts and so one time, I was petting a cat and wanted to state it so. I reasoned I could do the classic English-French add an -er to an English verb and get the French one.
So “I pet the cat” became « Je pète le chat »
Seemed reasonable.
Then after everyone (6 francophones my age) stopped laughing, I was told I had said
“I fart the cat” 🐈 💨
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And so my learning that I will share is that:
“Learning a language means you will have to be vulnerable and try.
You WILL make mistakes.
And that’s ok.
In fact it’s great because it means you are learning!
And sometimes it can even be funny.”
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