I have two nieces in medical school.
I don’t know where they got their smarts from.
I just hope they’ll cut me a sweet deal when the time comes to transplant my brain inside a Tesla Robot.
However…
Talk to them about foreign languages and they will argue quite convincingly that they are just no good.
One took Spanish and the other French.
Of course, they passed all their tests.
But like most Americans who study a foreign language in school, they couldn’t order a Coke in a KFC, in Paris or Madrid.
I think that’s one of the worse things schools do to kids.
They install limiting beliefs.
They do that by giving a ton of evidence why speaking is difficult, stressful or just impossible.
A BETTER IDEA
What if, kids spoke from Day One?
And no one was allowed to give any criticism? Only praise?
If that’s how schools taught foreign languages, I think my nieces, and much of the world, would be telling a different story.
And speaking a foreign language.
And enjoying it!
