Where to put your focus
Speaking a language is not like those exams that many of us had to take in grade school, where a tiny grammar mistake would lose you marks.
In the real world, small errors don't matter. What matters is to make yourself understood.
Don't focus on yourself or on your own mistakes. Focus on the other person you're talking to and the result you want to get.
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When speaking a new language, what matters most is your attitude - not your accuracy
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"I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it." -Frank Howard Clark
Instead of looking at a foreign language as an art to be mastered and perfected, think of it as a tool you can use to get a result.
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