Yating
It’s already been five months since I came to Montreal last September, and what makes me feel ashamed and frustrated is the fact that having been living in such a French-dominant environment for nearly half a year, I still found little improvement in my French skill.
Being exposed to everyday life with almost everything in French (eg. menus, food labels, road signs, metro stations, daily communications between people etc.), I couldn’t figure out why such a supportive learning environment made little contribution to my French learning. It was until one day, Chen, a friend of mine, told me that, “You can never truly learn a language if you just stay inside your comfort zone”, that I finally realized that in the matter of language learning (either in French or English), I have to push myself to “seek discomfort” before achieving the desirable outcome I have long been expected.
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