Today’s episode is in French, I’m going to talk about how I learnt my second language: English.

Remember, you can access all the transcriptions on my website Connect2languages.com

French people often ask me how I learnt English. They are generally quite surprised to hear my accent which is funny when I think of it, because, trust me, it wasn’t an easy-going journey. I don’t have any particular talent for languages. 

Note, that I’m going to list the 8 things that were the most significant in my learning journey of English. This is personal; I’m sharing my experience. I can’t share every single strategy obviously, because there are hundreds of them. Again, I’m gonna list the 8 most significant events or strategies for me.

For more episodes on how to learn a language, I recommend Episodes 14: 5 things to consider when learning a language and Episode 11: Afraid to lose your second language when you move back home? 

In short, my 8 points are:
- Watch movies in original version (original version)
- I forced myself to think in English
- At first when I came to Ireland I said whatever went through my head
- I surrounded myself with English speakers
- I learned English "sur l'oreiller" (literally "on the pillow" meaning through a romantic relationship
- I worked on my writing 
- I studied pronunciation