Submitted by Ganjin on February 12, 2019, at 8:29
Thank you for sharing this story. I found it very inspiring. In my experience, there's knowing French, and then there's knowing French--one being the collection of rules and grammar, and the other being the words that flow from one's mouth in unscripted situations. As any French learner is aware, these two types of 'knowing' are so very different and seem to emerge from two different places in the brain. It seems, from my experience, that oral expression is inherently linked to emotion, in some way. It's so neat to see how you took an activity that brings you joy and used it to develop your French language skills. I think you have wonderfully revealed a key secret to learning a second language.