Hadar Shemesh argues that learning English is personal development. Mastering a language means confronting fear of speaking, judgment, and the need for perfection. The mindset shifts required for language acquisition transfer to other areas of life.
Learning a language is not just cognitive, it's not just linguistic. It's a behavioral shift that you need to go through to be able to believe that you can communicate. You have to face all your demons about speaking up and about your voice and about who you are. You have to be okay with judgment. You have to be okay with criticism. You have to be okay with not being perfect. You have to be okay with standing out and being different. And all of those things are in my head and they're helping me be a better person. So I always tell my students that the language learning journey is a personal development journey and we have to overcome a lot of demons. When we do that learning English, for example, we can apply it on so many other things that we're doing in other areas of our lives.
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