Embrace Success as a Language Learner from Day One!

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English with Jennifer


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I want to tell you something. You are already  successful as an English language learner. Why?  
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Because you're her. You chose to show up. You  see, I've made more progress in Russian than in  
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Spanish. I'm still a beginner in Spanish, but I  already consider myself successful in my Spanish  
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studies because I chose to start, and because I  show up I go to my classes, my private lessons,  
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and I practice. You have to get in the game  to make progress, and it's not always going  
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to be easy, and we're going to make mistakes, but  that's part of the process. If we compare language  
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learning to a sport like football or hockey, there  are still people sitting on a bench. When you're  
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on that bench, you have thoughts like, "I can't.  It's too hard. I don't have the time. People on  
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the bench haven't even started, or they've given  up. Maybe they're waiting for a signal. Maybe  
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they're waiting for permission. In language  learning, you don't need anyone's permission  
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except your own. There's also a danger when people  think, "Well, yeah, I want to be successful. I  
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want to be fluent." But you see, that makes  success far out there, like 5 years from  
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now. But you can embrace success from day one.  Success is here and success is here. And that's  
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how you create a successful language learning  experience -- what I like to call happy studies!
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