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‘Lose Your Inhibitions’
If you want to become a great speaker of a foreign language, the
first thing you will want to do is lose your inhibitions. Allow
yourself to make mistakes, and allow yourself to make a lot of
them. If you’ve ever had the opportunity to watch a toddler
acquire language, you know that most of what they say in the
beginning are mistakes. Babies and toddlers verbalize
constantly, experimenting to see what combination of sounds will
get them what they want.
You’ve probably heard the quote, ‘Feedback is the breakfast of
champions.’ In my book, Master Plan to Master Exams: How to
Discover Your Hidden Abilities to Create the Success You Desire,
I teach that, ‘Feedback is the GPS Navigation System to Your
Goals.’
Feedback is an essential tool for perfecting your craft -- and
you can’t get any unless you allow yourself to speak. You say
something in the language you are learning, you notice how the
other person responds, and you adjust and learn. It is through
these millions of adjustments that you learn how to perfect your
speaking and become truly fluent in the foreign language.
If you have friends who are native speakers of the target
language, and they care enough about you to give you feedback
and correct your foreign language, consider yourself very lucky
and consider these friends among the best, most valuable friends
you’ll ever meet.
So allow yourself to speak the target language, to let the words
flow, and to learn, and gain mastery. You can become a brilliant
speaker of any foreign language you want to when you allow
yourself to let mistakes be okay!
Here’s to Your Success!
Teresa Bolen
Copyright © 2006 by Teresa Bolen. All rights reserved.
Teresa Bolen is the author of Master Plan to Master Exams:
How to Discover Your Hidden Abilities to Create the Success You
Desire. FREE ‘Academic Excellence Report’ http://www.MasterPlanToMasterExams.com
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