跟读练习: I Learned 7 Languages as an Adult. Here's What Nobody Tells You - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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I'm from a small town in southern China.
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I'm from a small town in southern China.
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My parents are ordinary people.
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Neither of them speaks English.
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And yet, when people find out I speak eight languages,
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I notice a pattern in how they respond.
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Some assume I must have grown up in an international family,
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gone to international schools, or had a diplomat parent,
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or spent my childhood moving between countries,
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and I just absorbed languages along the way.
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Some think I must have a special gift for it,
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that it comes naturally to me in a way it wouldn't come naturally to them.
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And some honestly think I must have had a lot of time and money and the right conditions.
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That language learning at this level is something that only happens in ideal circumstances.
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I want to tell you what it actually looked like.
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Let's get into it.
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So French was the first foreign language I learned to speak fluently.
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And I studied it in my 20s.
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I began by attending a weekend language school while I was still working in China.
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I was just following the course with no real idea yet of what learning a second language actually required.
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Then I quit my job and moved to France.
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I enrolled in a language school.
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I tried every method I could find.
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And after one year, I passed the DATF C1 exam.
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In some ways, those were relatively good conditions.
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I had a school.
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I had an immersive environment.
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But I was also working part-time to support myself.
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And looking back, I realized something important that model actually trapped me because I could never find those same conditions again.
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And for a long time,
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I thought I needed them.
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English came next during my master's degree in sociology.
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I knew that if I wanted an international academic career,
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I had to improve my English quickly.
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I could understand it reasonably well at that point,
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but my speaking was very broken.
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I was mixing French pronunciation without even realizing it.
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So I made myself a study plan every morning podcast shadowing.
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After a few months of that,
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I met an English speaker and discovered,
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to my surprise, that I could actually hold a conversation.
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This was the first language I learned entirely without an immersive environment.
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I've never lived in an English-speaking country.
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And that experience gave me something really important, confidence.
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The realization that you can reach a generally high level in a language without perfect conditions.
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People always say, oh go live in the country you will improve your language
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and yes that helps but most of us simply can't do
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that and it turns out you don't have to
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that confidence is what opened the door to arabic at first
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i was drawn to it out of pure intellectual interest i studied with a textbook
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and a fixed morning study routine the same structure
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that had worked for english then arabic study to shake my master's thesis topic
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which gave me opportunities to actually use it in conversations at
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that point I was doing my master's my field work
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and an internship at a research lab all at the same time
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while learning English
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and Arabic simultaneously I remember thinking learning two languages is actually manageable even in imperfect conditions
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that realization mattered then I added German I learned it for
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professional reasons I wanted to open up the German academic community
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and expand my career possibilities in Europe and honestly I never loved it.
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Not at first, we will come back to that.
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Turkish and Persian came during my PhD in the middle of the most demanding schedule of my life.
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Something about how I learned those two languages changed everything.
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I will come back to that last.
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And then Italian still learning it now.
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Seven languages, every single one of them learned in imperfect conditions.
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Let me share something deeper with you.
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There's a moment I keep coming back to when I think about what Arabic gave me.
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I was doing my fieldwork,
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interviewing people, working with a translator for some of the sessions
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because my Arabic at that stage wasn't strong enough to go without one.
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One of the interviews was with a mother who had crossed Mediterranean with her daughter.
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In the translated version of her testimony, there was a line.
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She was afraid but stayed quiet all the way.
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A year later, I went back to the audio recording.
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My Arabic was stronger by then.
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Not just linguistically, but in terms of what I understood culturally,
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what I could hear underneath the words.
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And what she had actually said was completely different.
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What she said was this.
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She stopped speaking for two days, not a word.
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I thought maybe she would never speak again.
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The translator have rendered silence as composure.
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What was actually being described was trauma.
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That's what it means to really know a language,
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not just the words, but what lives underneath them.
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So you can imagine what it felt like when I lost it.
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After my field work ended,
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Arabic was no longer part of my daily life.
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And slowly and quickly, I lost my level.
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I kept finding excuses, my mental health,
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my demanding schedule, my uncertain future.
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I told myself I just wasn't in the right place for it.
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That I'd come back when things calmed down.
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Things didn't calm down, they never do.
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What I felt underneath all those excuses was shame.
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I had invested years into this language.
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I had invested money and energy.
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I had to build something real with it.
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And I was watching it fade.
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And I couldn't make myself to do anything about it.
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It took me a long time to understand why.
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Because the problem wasn't the gap the gap was a symptom.
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The real problem was how I have been learning all along.
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I had always treated language learning as burst effort,
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big plan, clear goal, intense period of work,
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then collapsed when life got in the way.
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I believed you needed perfect conditions to do it properly.
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That if you weren't fully committed,
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fully focused, fully ready, you shouldn't even start.
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And so when I wasn't ready, I didn't.
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And the language faded.
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What I was missing and what I had to learn the hard way is a healthy relationship with language learning.
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I want to say that clearly because I don't think it gets talked about enough.
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A healthy relationship means the language can be part of your life even when your life is messy.
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It doesn't require ideal conditions.
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It doesn't require you to be perfect.
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It doesn't require a big plan or a clear timeline it requires something much simpler
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and in a way much harder making it light enough to
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keep going it was my first year of the phd i
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was also lecturing at the university the schedule was brutal
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and i felt this pull toward turkish
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and persian my first instinct the same one i'd always had was to wait maybe after the phd maybe
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when things calmed down you know how it goes
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but i didn't wait and now i'm very proud of that decision
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because i didn't have time for a big plan i didn't
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make one i just decided okay 15 20 minutes every morning
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at 7 a.m before the day started no pressure no expectations
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of where i'd be in six months just 20 minutes following a simple textbook.
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I started calling it quiet learning and it changed how I understand everything.
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After a month, I finished textbook.
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I started having short daily exchanges in both languages, nothing perfect but real.
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And I could feel the accumulation happening,
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not the dramatic overnight progress I'd been chasing in early years,
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something quieter and much more durable.
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What those 20 minutes taught me is that you don't need perfect conditions to learn a language,
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you need the right mindset and a routine that can actually survive your real life.
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The conditions were never going to be perfect,
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the PhD was not going to pause,
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life was not going to slow down and wait for me to be ready, it never does.
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But 20 minutes every day consistently compounds into something real and once I felt that,
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truly felt it through Turkish and Persian,
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I finally understand what had happened with Arabic.
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The version of me that lost Arabic was waiting for the right moment to come back.
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The version of that learned Turkish and Persian stopped waiting.
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One day, a friend sent me a podcast in Lebanese Arabic,
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an interview with a Lebanese psychologist,
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And when I heard that accent,
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that familiar accent, something stirred in me,
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like something I missed coming back into the room.
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I just wanted to do it.
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I tried different time slots,
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different formats, different ways to bring input and output back into my week.
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I made it fit and it worked.
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Arabic is back in my life,
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life not because the conditions became perfect because I stopped requiring them to be.
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Right now I'm studying Arabic,
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Italian and German at the same time.
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I know how that sounds.
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In my first ever years it would have felt impossible.
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Three separate intensive programs running simultaneously competing with each other and with everything else in my life.
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But with the right mindset and the right structure I don't feel overwhelmed.
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I feel light.
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I actually look forward to my language learning time every day.
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It becomes something I protect,
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a kind of a sacred morning ritual,
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not something I force myself into or feel guilty about missing.
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That transformation is not about discipline, it's about design.
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Designing your learning so that it can live inside a real imperfect demanding life.
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And here is the thing that took me the longest to understand.
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The most durable motivation is not career,
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not travel,
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not even passion is what language does to your mind every
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language is a different cognitive universe learning it doesn't just give
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you new words it gives you a new way of thinking
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that's not a romantic idea that's what the neuroscience says
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and once you feel it once you feel your mind being
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stretched by something generally foreign to everything you know it stops feeling like a skill you are acquiring
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and starts feeling like a weight of growing that's the shift
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from language is something you have to language as something that shapes who you are.
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Eight languages, all of them worth it.
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Not because of what they gave me professionally but because of who they make me.
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That's what it actually looks like to become a self-made polyglot.
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All right, I want to ask you something.
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Has the language ever caused you something or changed something in you that you didn't expect?
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Not just a skill you picked up,
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something that's a shifty how you see yourself or how you think
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or how you understand about the word tell me in the comments i love reading your comments and
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if what i described today resonated with you the healthy relationship
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idea the quiet building the mindset underneath all of these i
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put together a free pdf called how i learned seven languages the structure behind it i share the key mindset
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that changed everything for me
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and the way i think about language learning is free link
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in the description thank you for watching guys i will see you in the next video bye
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