Long ago, when I was 12 years old and in Germany for the first time, I met with the fear of speaking in a foreign language. What if they didn’t understand me? What if I said the contrary of what I meant? What if I said something completely out of turn? What if I said something gross or insulting? What if…?
I have been putting off the real start of this blog for 16 months now. What if people don’t find it interesting? What if somebody feels insulted? What if nobody reads it???
Well, if I don’t launch it, I’ll never know. Nobody will get an opportunity to read my posts or to be interested in them.
If you don’t speak, you for sure don’t make mistakes… but nobody hears you. You don’t communicate at all. You don’t exist.
I am starting this blog to show myself I can overcome my fears and to show you that anything is possible.
As I am a language coach, some may say I’d better learn another language. I’ll tell you later my many reasons not to go that way. Anyway, it’s time for a new challenge. For now, I find the written word simply more scary and I want to overcome the fear of publishing a post exactly as I overcame my fear of uttering full sentences some 30 years ago.
If I can overcome the fear of writing, one blogpost at a time, you can overcome your fear of speaking, one word at a time, one sentence at a time.
This blog is going to be about languages, life, reading, binge watching of series, myself…
It’s going to be in English, German, Czech or French, according to my mood.
It will for sure be full of mistakes and typos and… whatever. But it will exist.
What will YOU tell me today?