The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill
I’d thought that learning Hindi would be a breeze once I got here, for everyone would be speaking it 24/7. That’s totally not the case.
The cousins I’ve been staying with know English, and so I’ve fallen into the pattern of not speaking Hindi out of convenience. It’s just that I feel like I sound stupid whenever I try, like all those foreign born people in Bollywood movies that I used to make fun of 😖.
But we all must work hard to gain what we need, so I guess that sounding stupid is one of the steps to learning a new language. And I desperately need to learn it if I want people to pay attention to me when I teach. The thing is that I’m the minority here. In the U.S., people make fun of those with foreign accents the same way they do here. It’s just a part of life that I have to accept if I am to overcome it.
So it’s time to step out of the comfort zone that I’ve snuggled into over the past week and jump right into it. AHHHHHHHH!!!!
Gold Award: Spreading the CPR 