Parents like to repeat stories, and my mother’s no exception. All her life she’d tell us that German and English were okay for her to learn, but not French. That it was—and would be—always beyond her.
So maybe below a certain threshold of familiarity we tend to baulk at a language. We tense up. We decide that it is simply too different. It’s beyond our imagination to imagine using it. And then, of course, we never do.
That’s the mindset that I often need to counter when I expose myself, no matter how lightly, to such a language.
Today: D5 J2 G1 Sp1 F1
Total: J57 D39 G17 Sp7 F2
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