I truly enjoyed this episode. The conversation gave ne more food for thought when it comes to identity, being myself, and connecting to the language(and culture) I'm learning.
Incredible!!! This episode was so incredible. 🤗❤ That's awesome to listen these speaking different languages... ❤❤❤ 21:40 - 24:52 Greetings from Bolivia, Latin America. 😊👏🏻
TOEIC near perfect score in 3 months? From what level? I'm guessing from lots of informal self study / immersion to formally trying to learn to ace the test? Your imagination definitely limits or helps you with language learning. I couldn't really imagine learning any foreign languages until I had visited Europe. That experience blew my mind. And then later I decided to learn Japanese. I was even living in Japan and studied 2 years of grammar classes before going there but I totally felt a mental block like I used to feel about German before going to Germany. But just going to Japan didn't eliminate the block for me. I figured out because it was simply because I looked so different (and was taller than most Japanese people) that I just couldn't take on a Japanese identity. What really brought this to the front for me was when I watched some western shows/movies on Netflix dubbed into Japanese and seeing Japanese being spoken (well not really - it was dubbed) by all these white people was a bit of a mental shock for me. (Not broken Japanese like mine, but real fluent Japanese). I was also older, almost 40. Anyway, I'm totally past that now thank God. I think recognizing it helped and just trying over and over to speak and connect with Japanese people.
21:25 Sometimes we need inspiration to continue doing what we are doing, right? In this case learning a language or even continue a language related career or anything about that matter. I got inspired here ❤
