Speak a Foreign Language Like a Native
Hello everyone!
I’m back again to share more of my experiences with you all. After my success with The Mimic Method’s German Elemental Sounds course, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and learn a completely new language: Spanish.
I had little to no exposure to the Spanish sounds before I started (minus a few songs) so I was starting from scratch in a way that I hadn’t with German.
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Hi there, my name’s Sam and I am a 27-year-old designer, writer, foodie and language lover. I recently purchased The Mimic Method’s German Elemental Sounds course and wanted to share my experience with you all.
Where it all began…
Like most teenagers in England, I was forced to study two languages at school and I chose French and German.
I was terrible!
I used to hide at the back of the class and dread the day the teacher would point me out and ask me to say something.
After 4 years of study, I was pleasantly surprised to receive decent grades but had no real useable knowledge or language skills. I wasn’t even able to order food in Germany on our school trip… embarrassing!
After leaving college and heading to university I gave German another try as I was offered a free language course alongside my degree. After two weeks I had given up and resigned myself to that fact I would never be able to speak a second language.
That all changed when I decided to book a surprise trip to Rome for my fiancèe’s birthday and I thought it would be an even better surprise if I could speak Italian when we went. I wasn’t aiming for anything fancy, just to be able to order a coffee. At the time I worked away from home so filled my hour drive to work with Italian podcasts, hoping that if I sat talking to myself for long enough something would stick…and it did!
I checked in to the hotel, ordered food and even gave Italian’s directions to the Vatican. A new world of possibilities opened to me and I have never looked back.
Five years on and I have now reached an intermediate level in Italian and dabbled in French, Icelandic and now German.
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