You cant imagine how hard it is to suddenly start to wake up every morning at 9 and starting some kind of routine after 4 months of slacking :D ... And the language , to boot. You know the one thing that's makes you feel homesick is actually language ( sorry everything else ) at least all the other thing I know I gonna see and stuff , and thats just life , but when it comes to language , you just want to chill out and speak your mother thongue for a moment , without thinking wheter I gonna say it right or correctly , and constantly stressing about whether they gonna understand you , do you spell thing correctly - that is really exhausting ... i actually start to notice that I sometimes suddenly answer in my own language :D , jsut cuz I am just to it ...
I have also noticed , that if I think more about what I am going to tell and how it is going to sound and stuff ,will it be correct... I mess everything up much more , than when I just trust my instinct ( that I believe has been built up in me the last 9 years of English studies in school) , cuz when I talk freely , I sound much more natural and even correct... Thats actually a learning for everyone... You have to feel the language , not know it .. kinda... Cuz we all know how to speak and what is the correct way , we all have seen people speak in English probably millions of times ( in movies , shows ans so on) , So all we need to do is shut down our own language that wants to control the text we are going to tell , and let the memory of those who speak in English control your English speaking flow :)
To speak fluently its important to not think about the things you gonna say in your own language , but think about it in English (in my case , but I believe that applies for any language :) )
We all are used to speaking to our selves in English and we then we are all pros , like , you can feel and sometimes fell kinda surprised , how I know all those words and stuff, but when you have to do the presentation , you start to stammer and forget words , that you know you should know , so why it is that way ? Actually movie : The Kings Speech , kinda explains it .. try putting in earphones while speaking English , and you gonna see how fluently you can speak ... Ye that's cool and that is true ....
BUT why did I start to talk about it ? Well I have noticed that in pubs and clubs , when there is really loud noise , I speak English much better than , when everybody stands around me and its completely silent :D , then I usually forget what I wanted to say :D ... So now I am really practicing to turn of my hearing when I speak , cuz even if u dont hear yourself , you still know what are you saying , and I know that I am saying the things I wanted , and the words fall in place much better than when I hear myself ... Ye , So that's because when I hear myself , my mind immediately analyses what I had just said ,and gets in the middle of the things I wanted to say next :D ... So it is like my mind works at two things in two languages at the same time - so that obviously exhausts people and makes him more tired ... So I gonna keep practicing to just speak my mind trusting it knows the right words and order n' stuff :D , cuz it does ! ( I am not able to speak like this (like the way I write) , only when I am completely sleep deprived or sound deaf :D .
I hope you red that .. It could actually be useful ( for those to whom the English (for example) is their second language ... And if you have experienced the same share your thoughts and experience in the comments please!
P.S. just keep in mind that I have to speak in English 24/7 not like only for the learning time , like some of you are( those who learn at the Stockholm School of Economics , I bet it is hard for you too , but you at least can go home and spend some time speaking in your native language ... I don't really have that chance ... Ye i use skype and mobile but still its only like maximum 30 minutes ... So ye that's the part where the homesickness creep in :(
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