{"id":181,"date":"2020-06-03T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voxsprachschule.wordpress.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:02:03","slug":"please-feel-free-to-be-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/2020\/06\/please-feel-free-to-be-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Please, (Feel Free To) Be Quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Or: \u201cStop the madness of constant group work\u201d (Susan Cain)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to learn how to speak a language, you need to speak. Don\u2019t be afraid, don\u2019t be afraid to make mistakes. Talk to and with people as much as you can. Try. Talk about yourself and what you like. Share. Try again. Do like children do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, when I was three, I once (no, it was not a one time thing, actually) woke up and told my mom that \u201cI won\u2019t talk to anyone today.\u201d \u2013 and I did. 20 years later, I passed a final exam with the best grades in the written part, and only good grades in the oral part. Why? I still wonder. But the professor claimed that \u201cYou are good, so why don\u2019t you just speak your mind? The oral exam is about\u2026 talking.\u201d 4 years later, SVEB course: let\u2019s do group work. Yey. On Thursdays from 6 to 10 pm, it was silence time, meaning: I barely spoke for the entire 6-month course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to learn how to speak a language, you need to speak. Well, my brain works best in silence, I really need to think twice (three, four times) before I share my thoughts or say something, or I won\u2019t be happy with what comes out of my mouth (I am not happy anyway, but\u2026 I would like to limit the damage). I hate to be misunderstood (my opinion is often unpopular by the way,, so I know I will probably need to engage in a long, exhausting discussion leading to\u2026 not much except frustration). I absolutely dislike small talk and \u201cround table\u201d meetings, group brainstorming and role plays. My brains just black out. And hours later, I find myself writing <\/em>down ideas, furiously (please note the chomskyan quote), regretting that I wasn\u2019t even able to have <\/em>them at the \u201cright time\u201d. Or didn\u2019t want to share them: \u201cIf I only had said that\u2026\u201d (my favourite silent line at school when I wouldn\u2019t say a word, even though I knew the answer, and someone else eventually got it\u2026 after four, five, six \u201cwhatever\u201d-attempts).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this happens\u2026 in my mother tongue. So, when it comes to learning a foreign language, I should be hopeless: I need to overcome my speaking-related issues in a language that I haven\u2019t mastered\u2026 in order to learn how to speak that language. So, I\u2019m doomed. Introverts \u2013 just to give myself and people like me a label \u2013 we are doomed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

… THE END…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or: \u201cStop the madness of constant group work\u201d (Susan Cain) In order to learn how to speak a language, you need to speak. Don\u2019t be afraid, don\u2019t be afraid to make mistakes. Talk to and with people as much as you can. Try. Talk about yourself and what you like. Share. Try again. Do like…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[62],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/000lft-6b7e-1200x801-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":62,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"valeminerva","display_name":"Valentina Carlini","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/692512b8254271ba076c8b020c13dc65?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vox-sprachschule.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}