Tis the season for Christmas parties.
All around Prague, restaurants are full of people gathering for dinners and events.
Vig Village will do the same, but online, this Saturday.
If you’re a member, I hope you can make it – it’s always a lot of fun.
And this year, we’re doing something new – I’m performing my first piano concert!
As you may know, I just started piano lessons two weeks ago.
The Saturday performance wasn’t my idea; it was by popular demand.
And for some reason, I said “Ok.”
Well, it’s going to be…. interesting.
ENGLISH IDENTITY
On Wednesday, a friend had a Christmas party in his apartment.
At the party, I met a Slovak girl who spoke many languages: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, etc.
She said when she speaks each language, she’s a different person.
How interesting!
Are you a different person when you speak English?
I want to know!
Let me know your experience.
Have a great weekend.
And I’ll see some of you this Saturday.
I like actually love to speak English and to learn it. But I can only imagine that I am different english person… I always like it, but I have never spoken it fluent. My niece could sang songs on English and write me the text of them when she was in primary school, but not me… And that is a talent, not only love. One person said me before 5 years that I lived in Italy and England in my past lives🙄😉🤔 but I’ll live soon in Russia. It’s a petty.. There is a war and they don’t speak English or have thats good old towns, clothes and food like Italian people… Still they have other monumental buildings and the palaces. And I would like to go in Russia or in similar neighbouring country as a tourist but not to live there… And I was in Italy several times.
I played the piano and I have it but I didn’t play it after I finished my primary music school. That’s a long period… About 35 years…
Have a nice music chat and the piano weekend.
Another, maybe, subject, for your speaking club or village: past life…
Who were you in a past life…? I like it! I’ll ask it in a chat room soon.
Cuando hablo en inglés pienso diferente, pero no me siento otra persona. Sale otra faceta de mi personalidad, solo eso.
Congratulations for your first piano concert.
The Slovak girl opinion is very interesting. I was in England – was like them, but I didn’t speak good English
Hi Eva, that’s an interesting idea. In January you’ll get in invitation to come look around inside and try Vig Village.
The Slovak girl is somehow right. Sometimes, when I speak English, I feel more easygoing and relaxed than when I communicate in my language. I more often smile. Although my English is far from being good.
Hi it’s me Klara
It’s very interesting topic I started to think about it and what I see that the Slovak girl have right because language is not only to speak words language move your body is your emotion and your mentally and like we all know every countries have different mentality and so when I speak in English I feel like people from America so they are more easy going they are more happiness and they are more open to another people just like you Ryan you are easy going and always have smile in your face so yes I feel the same when I speak English. Wish you all best in this Christmas season.
Thanks a lot for everything.
I feel not myself like different person when ı speak English yet.
But ı am triying follow your method for sepeak English . read, speak myself and listen.
Maybe I will feel myself like different person on its not far time. 🙂 chears, have a greate cristmes.
and hello to everyone…
[…] On Friday, I asked you, Who are you when you speak English? […]
You asked if my personality changes when I speak English…
My answer is yes, I feel good , I feel more confident and I feel inspired.
Perhabs my English is not yet so fluent enough to give me a new or different identity… or maybe I can’t notice it.
Am I a different person when I speak French, English? Italian ?
I think so. It’s difficult to explain though.
Whether I speak French, English or Italian I value the same things. My thoughts are the same, for sure.
My personality doesn’t express exactly the same feelings.
Maybe according to the story I have with each language my feelings are slightly different and they brighten specific parts of my personality.
What does the language refers to me ?
Speaking Italian I feel my genealogy, I feel the warmth of Italy, my hole body smiles, I feel very at ease, it refers to my beloved grandmother talking to me in Italian when I was a kid, it refers to my real belonging, it’s very strong, very unique and comfortable. I can feel I’m different.
French is my mother language. It refers to my mother and my father, they could have spoken Italian to me but they never did, they were born in France but their parents were Italian. It was important for them that I speak a perfect good French, it refers to my studies, being serious, and having fun at the same time, it’s me, the very authentic and deep way I built my personality.
English is my challenge. I went to London to the French lycée I wanted to develop a new skill, I wanted to master this new skill, it’s all about improving, being better, it relates to the death of my father, entering a new word, it’s a very personal choice and when I speak English I feel the strength of my motivation for mastering something… It refers to the teenager I was once in London… full of hopes, ready to embrace my life, it’s probably a good positive memory. That’s why I like the feeling and the message I get when I speak English : Everything’s possible.
The reasons we speak different languages are probably important and have something to see with the way we feel when talking those languages.
The music of the languages are different to my ears and they sent different emotions, different unconscious messages to me, that’s why I feel different.
Well I don’t know.
This is my feeling now maybe I’m dead wrong 😉
While I started speaking english every day whith real person I notice that I feel more comfortable during this conversation – even if I don’t speak grammatic correctly. Moreover, I become more curious whether other side – I mean other person to I speak to – understand me. If looks at me with interest and give me additional questions to my story – that means for me: “yeah you’re doing that good – keep going.” It’s a very positive feeling and it build me inside and unconcern me.
There is a saying in Turkish: “One who knows one language is one person; one who knows two languages is two people.” I believe Goethe had a similar saying: “A person is as many people as they know languages.”