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Lessons in French


Lessons in French

I am progressing. I will admit that I get overwhelmed at times and think to myself "I can't learn this!" However I haven't given up. I'm still working on it. A big moment for me was when my CD told me that I could no longer say I only understood a little French, because I now understand much more than a little.

In learning French, I love how often they use my name. I guess Marie is a very common name in France. But for me, it's nice hearing it. In one of my lessons they said "Imagine your name is Mrs. White." I about laughed myself to tears the first time I listened to that lesson. Thankfully they didn't say "Imagine your name is Marie White."

My husband tells me that it's very good for my brain for me to be learning a new language. He read an article by Kate Willson called "An Added Reason to Learn a New Language: It increases brain size." Here's an excerpt:

Learning a new language can actually make your brain bigger.
Swedish researchers from Lund University recently released a study suggesting that becoming fluent in another language can help beef up your brain-the cerebral cortex to be exact, which controls nearly all of your brain power: reasoning, visual processing, planning, and memory.
Learning a new language can also enlarge your hippocampus, the part of the brain that also helps with long term memory forming.
It isn't certain, but researchers assume that having a larger cerebral cotex can help you excel in your studies as well as come in handy during your old age, when people's memory and vision start to fade.

I try to remind myself of that as well when I'm feeling overwhelmed.

Has anyone else reading this tried to learn a new language? Any tips or hints you can pass along?

I think it's hardest on Friday's because my mind needs a break by then. I'm feeling like....


TGIF!  à bientôt! 

MW
Copyright 2016

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