I want to tell you the story of Alissa.
Alissa is American and works in the medical field. She has been learning French for a few years and has only been to France one time for 10 days on vacation. Her French level in terms of listening is at a near-native level. Her speaking level is at an upper-intermediate (B2) or perhaps even a low-advanced (C1.)
Here was Alissa’s secret to reaching such a high level.
Most of what she has watched or read for a few years has been in French. TV shows, news articles, YouTube videos…everything. It has been almost entirely in French instead of English. She immersed herself without ever leaving the country.
Alissa also:
Takes weekly classes
Journals in French regularly
Think about how much time you spend consuming content. Imagine doing that in your target language instead of your mother tongue.
I’m genuinely curious: how does that make you feel? Does it sound overwhelming? Easy? Exciting? Contact me here and let me know.
I know for me, it gives me hope.
Seeing Alissa (I just spoke with he today) inspired me. Switching my content consumption over to another language instead of English sounds tiring, yet somehow more doable than implementing other language learning strategies I usually use.
I’m going to do this for Mandarin since it’s the main language I’m learning.
Let’s see how it goes :)
Thanks for reading! Contact me if you have any questions or if you’d like more information for my 2-month conversation course for French and Spanish starting up in January.