Whoops

Last week I had the major embarrassment of breaking into tears during a language lesson.  Tears don't always come at opportune times.  I was so overwhelmed with the LANGUAGE and learning the LANGUAGE that my stress came out in tears.

My helper asked, with a panicked look on her face, what was wrong.

I replied, through sniffles and sobs, that I spoke like a baby.

She told me that I shouldn't think like that and that I'm learning more quickly than she expected.  Then she offered me her apple juice.

While humiliating, she is now taking a slower pace with me, being more thorough, checking for my comprehension, and speaking praise when I understand something.  This makes learning the LANGUAGE much more pleasant and more like learning a language.

I'm think maybe I'm a two year old now.

Language Helper

My language helper is great.  She is not afraid to correct me.  She's teaching me to speak colloquially as opposed to grammatically.  She's coming up with new and great ideas to help me to learn.  I'm super pleased.

Already I am more confident in my speaking and learning a ton!

Monday

Monday is the day I'm going to formally start learning language.  Up until now, I've learned a little through conversations and my neighbors pointing to objects, but now I get to start speaking like an adult.  Before I came here, I decided that I'd view myself as a baby.  When people laugh at a baby for saying something incorrectly, it's because the baby is so cute.

The baby in the house below, the one that people laugh at when she tries to talk, asked her grandmother the day, "Why doesn't Naomi ever speak?"

I'm excited to start speaking like an adult.

Do you have any fun language learning mishap stories?