🗒️ Summary: Overcoming your Fear of Speaking Foreign Languages | Ellen De Visser | TEDxWolverhampton

Source: Overcoming your Fear of Speaking Foreign Languages | Ellen De Visser | TEDxWolverhampton
By Luis Francisco Montero Hernández @luisframontero

• Playing ping-pong has many similarities with speaking foreign language with native speakers.
• We all feel like we have to speak a new language perfectly before we start a conversation.
• That we have to master every piece of grammar and know all the words in order to pass the real-life language exam, but seeing it this way we only create our own barriers.
• Speak a foreign language is more that ordinary transaction, it is a far more human connection.
• Speak a foreign language allows you to have foreign friends and expand your circle.
• **You don’t need to speak a fluent English, you don’t need to be an olympic champion to make human connections and speak with a foreigners.
• Speak a foreign language allows you to have a new universe of experiences waiting for you.