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Hello, welcome back to English with Eleanor.

Today we're in the garden and having a coffee

and I'm going to use slow English to tell you about my experience learning languages.

so I have learned a few different languages

so far I started learning French when I was probably nine

or ten years old and I started learning that through classes that my school

offered so I didn't have any private tuition or anything like

that and it was just a class that was offered as part of my school day and I really liked it.

I don't know why but I just really enjoyed those classes

and the feeling of being able to say even something really basic in another language.

It felt amazing.

So when I went to secondary school,

aged 11, I learned French on a more regular basis there.

And I also started learning German.

I enjoyed both of those languages,

but when I was probably 17 I got a different teacher for German

and that made a huge difference to how much I enjoyed the language

because this teacher didn't really seem to inspire us to love the language.

There were also entire parts of our final exam that she didn't teach us,

so consequently we got fail marks in that paper,

even though we got better marks in the ones that she had prepared us for.

So this experience with this teacher and the fiasco with the exam put me off German,

kind of turned me a little bit against it also I

suppose I didn't enjoy it as much as French not only

because of the teacher but also because of the sound of the language German just

I'm sorry but it doesn't sound quite as beautiful to me as French does.

So I started learning Spanish in a night class.

So after my school I went to the college and I attended a night class

in Spanish so that I could get a flavor for the language

and I could see if it was something that I wanted to continue later.

So I enjoyed Spanish and because I was not having good experience with German and I really enjoyed French,

I decided to study French and Spanish at university.

So my experience studying these languages was in a quite controlled environment.

So I was studying in a school situation,

which meant that we were learning very systematically.

We were learning grammar and vocabulary by topic and we maybe weren't speaking a lot,

but we were learning the basics of how the language worked.

And then when I went to university,

there was more of the same,

more of the systematic learning of the language.

when I was about 20 I went to Geneva for my Erasmus year

and when I was there I stayed with a Swiss family

and I will never forget the first night that I spent with that family because I arrived just in time for dinner

and the family had three children.

The mom was pregnant with her fourth child and there were three children there and they were aged seven,

five and two.

And I remember the seven-year-old girl asking me a question in French and I didn't know what she was talking about.

It took me a bit of time to figure out what she was asking and how to answer.

It was about whether or not I liked organic food and I remember feeling so

lost because I had been studying French for like 10 years by

that point and at university and at school I had very good grades

and I was writing essays about French politics and you know deeper issues

but when it came to the everyday conversation and just talking casually with other people

that felt like the hardest thing I'd ever had to do

and now as a teacher I see that with students as well

because they maybe they know some of the higher level vocabulary but they really struggle

when it comes to just maintaining a natural conversation.

Now I am starting to learn Portuguese.

I'm learning Portuguese in a different way.

I'm learning Portuguese in a different way because I am learning it in a more communicative way.

From the students that I have had,

I have seen that there are basically two types of learners.

There are the learners who learn very systematically and they're afraid to speak

if they don't know the grammar perfectly or they don't know the vocabulary that they feel they need.

So this fear of not being perfect almost prevents them from communicating.

And then there are the other people who have no fear of communicating and they can talk and talk and talk.

But it's not grammatically accurate and maybe they don't have the correct vocabulary.

but they learn to communicate earlier and I think

that gives them the confidence to continue learning and continue communicating and building and that confidence is very motivational.

So with Portuguese I am learning not systematically at all because

if you asked me to do a grammar exercise I would probably be lost

but I can maintain a basic level of conversation with a person who is a native speaker when I need to.

And so it has been really interesting for me to compare these two ways of learning

because they both have pros and cons.

And I think it's probably best,

like in most situations, to find a middle ground

and to find a situation where you have enough confidence to communicate

but you are still concerned about the way that you are speaking

and the grammar that you are using and the vocabulary that you need.

So it's not easy to find this middle ground and it takes practice.

It's always good to have people to talk to so

that you can practice your language and it's even better if they are people who are

sympathetic and understanding and who you know aren't going to laugh at your mistakes

or criticize you for not being perfect

so i don't know about you i don't know what your language learning experience has been like.

Maybe you can identify with one of these types of learners that I was talking about.

Let me know in the comments because I'm curious and let me know what languages you have been learning.

Probably English but maybe there are others too.

So let me know in the comments.

I'd love to hear from you and don't forget to hit like and subscribe and I'll see you next time.

Thank you.

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