For NON NATIVE speakers only…

This post is for all my fellow friends (NON NATIVE SPEAKERS) who have to communicate in a FOREIGN LANGUAGE

It doesn’t matter how much you study a language, it won’t help you SPEAK a language.

Some people even refuse to speak at all because they cannot do it perfectly and it feels like a failure. I was there, I know what I’m talking about. I’ve lived in several countries, I had to speak different languages: French, Spanish and English. None of them is my first language.

It still happens to me when I don’t know how to say things precisely the way I want to or when I don’t know how to pronounce correctly. And it makes me feel frustrated and even vulnerable.

But that’s OK!!!

VULNERABILITY is the very core of why we grow at all. It makes us STRONGER.

To fear being vulnerable is to fear being YOU.

-Make a MISTAKE is NOT A FAILURE.

-FAILURE is our choice not to speak!

Remember: people care WHAT you have to SAY but not HOW you say it.