Connect 2 Languages Podcast

I feel it’s a very special episode. I really enjoyed making it. We’re going to talk about sensory memories.
When you move a lot, you get to experience different environments. And sometimes, it’s the little things that you miss: the temperature, the way the sun feels on your skin, the birds, the smells. In this episode, I’ll talk about this strange feeling of missing sensory experience that you used to have.

Extracts from the episode (translated from Spanish)
Olfactory memories are intense. When you smell something that reminds you of something, it transports you. And sometimes in a moment, because of the temperature, the smell, a sound or something, you travel back in time and when it happens it is almost magical.

Imagine, if we could feel for a moment the feeling of a place where we used to live. Where would you go? What would you like to feel?

In this chapter, I am going to describe two feelings that I used to feel when living in Conakry and in Buenos Aires. These memories make me smile, or rather they make me melancholic.

Now, we’re going to talk about the things to consider when learning a language. Whether you’re a beginner or you’ve got an intermediate level, there is more to consider than linguistics. 
So in this episode, I will list the things to be considered when learning a language.

1° What are the Linguistics aspects?

2° Culture: what do we mean by Culture?

3° Reflecting on your relationship with the language, why is it important?

4° Know yourself to understand how you learn best. You want to adopt the right strategies for you.

5° Be smart about how you include the language into your daily life and be consistent.

Today, we’re going to talk about that terrible feeling of being blocked when you speak French. You know how to speak and yet, you’re not able to show who you are or to express what you really want to say. Let’s discover why in French.

Alors le profile typique de mes élèves : c’est une femme ou un homme anglophone qui est venu en France pour vivre avec son ou sa conjointe. Ils sont en couple avec un ou une Française. Mais, en fait pour la majorité d’entre eux, ils se sont rencontrés à l’étranger et ont commencé leur histoire en anglais. Donc, ils continuent à parler anglais alors qu’ils vivent en France. Et puis, c’est pas facile de trouver du travail en France quand on parle pas couramment français, alors beaucoup d’entre eux travaillent en anglais. Ils sont devenus prof d’anglais, ils travaillent en freelance, ils travaillent pour des boîtes françaises mais ils s’occupent de clients étrangers, etc. 

Et il y a un mot qui revient souvent, c’est le mot : blocage. 

Voici les phrases qu’ils me disent :

-          Je suis bloqué(e). 

-          Je me sens pas moi-même quand je parle français. 

-          On ne me comprend pas.

-          Les gens me parlent en anglais tout de suite. 

-          Je sais parler français, mais je stresse et donc je réponds en anglais quand on me parle dans la rue.

Est-ce que vous vous reconnaissez ? Est-ce que vous avez aussi dit ces phrases ? Pourquoi vous vous sentez comme ça ? 

La question de cet épisode c’est : d’où ça vient ce blocage ?

Ça a à voir avec la connexion émotionnelle 

A Spanish episode today with a guest: Julia Bueno.
The first time I met Julia, we clicked instantly because we have something in common: we lived in multiple countries. 
We even came up with a name of the place where we live: the limbo. 
Living in the limbo means that you're a permanent foreigner, even in your own country.
In this episode, we explore what it feels like to move around and speaking various languages.

In today’s episode I’m going to talk about the feeling you may have of losing your second language when you move back to your home country after having lived abroad. I’ll share with you the strategies I use to maintain my level of Spanish.

For learners of English, you can find in the E-learning section of my website a video on the word "Lack". It’s a verb and a noun and I’ll show you how to use it in a sentence.

0:55 A feeling of Anxiety
2:40 Emotional barriers and Language blocks
3:40 I used to be scared of losing English, but not anymore
6:45 I’m scared of losing Spanish
8:00 The strategies I use to maintain my level of Spanish
11:20 How to learn a language by yourself?
13:20 The 3 strategies I should adopt

This is Episode 10!!! 
It's in French and I talk about the things I only do in my native language. I speak 3 languages on a daily basis, yet there are still things that I tend to do only in French. 

French learners, to keep on learning, you can go to the E-learning section on my website where you can find the full transcription and a video on the negative form with NE… QUE. An example of it is the title of this episode: “les choses que je ne fais qu’en français. The things I only do in French.

This episode is sponsored by éléran-languages if you want to learn Spanish, Swedish, French or English, then we’re a group of teachers who teach one-to-one. We design and tailor our classes to your needs and guide and support you through the language learning journey. Find us on www.eleran-languages.com

Sometimes, I feel like speaking 3 languages is a superpower. Yet, there are moments when I prefer remaining "Clark Kent" and I don't reveal my power. I'm not proud of it, but it happens.
Sometimes, I pretend I don't speak a particular language because I don't want to talk, or to get me out of a tricky situation. A friend of mine for example got away from a fine on the train in France pretending she didn't speak French.
In this episode, I tell you in Spanish about the day I pretended I didn't speak English.

You'll find in the E-learning section: *the full transcription, and *a video on the difference between "soñar" and "sonar".

el día que fingí no saber inglés

El título de este capítulo es: el día que fingí no saber inglés, pero yo le quería poner como título: “¡Popó, no! ¡Si no, nos matas a todos!” Y no me atreví.

Hablar idiomas es increíble. Requiere de muchos esfuerzos, hasta a veces se siente como un superpoder. Sin embargo, hay días en los que me conviene hacerme Clark Kent, es decir, hay momentos en los que no revelo mi poder. No me siento orgullosa al respecto, es muy cobarde de mi parte, pero a veces me permite salir de situaciones complicadas. A veces finjo no saber francés en las calles de Nantes porque no tengo ganas de hablar. O una amiga francesa se salvó de una multa en el tren hacía el aeropuerto de Francia fingiendo que era inglesa y que no entendía por qué su pasaje no era válido.

Hoy, les voy a contar una de las situaciones en las que fingí no saber inglés. Lo siento mucho, pero no me animé a interpretar ese día y les voy a contar por qué.

So, I'm French. I grew up in France, near Paris, but I also lived in different countries: in Guinea, in Ireland, in England and in Argentina. And I find it interesting to discover the rituals and habits around eating: from how the meals are structured, to how people host when they invite someone for dinner, but also everything related to eating out.

So many things surprised me abroad, and I actually talked about it in my last episode. But then I was wondering what aspects of the French Eating Culture surprise foreigners? So what do foreigners find surprising here in France when eating out or when eating with French people? 

So, I did some research and asked foreign people what they find surprising. I want to thank everyone who helped me and in particular the Facebook Group Living in France because I’ve had almost a 100 people sharing ideas with me and telling me what surprised them. For today’s episode, I’m going to concentrate on the perspective of Americans, British and Irish living in France. And I’m going to give an overview of the main ideas.

And for the learners of English, you can find in the E-learning section of my website the full transcription and an explanatory video on the difference between the adjectives: “surprising” and “surprised”.

Introduction
02:38 Quote from Jean
04:45 Eating is a social event in France
06:00 There are several courses
09:00 Bread -and especially baguette
09:35 The wine
10:22 Table manners
11:00 Some extra quotes just for fun

This episode is in French :)
I want to talk about the funny, or even embarrassing moments that we find ourselves in when we're invited to dinner or to have a drink in a foreign country. We all have different unwritten rules when it comes to sharing a meal. We may not be aware of them because they're so embedded in our culture, but that is also why it's so surprising to be exposed to other way of having a meal or dining out.
In the E-learning section on my website, you'll find the full transcription and 6 expressions we use to express surprise. 

A special thank you to my sponsors for this episode. Thanks to the campaign Ulule, this episode was sponsored by: Stéphanie, Audrenn, Gildas and Rachel. 
Thank you for your support!

In this episode, I talk about the drawbacks of being a foreigner.

It's in Spanish!!!

I lived abroad almost half of my life. I can make a very long list of all the benefits of living in a foreign country. I'll probably do one someday in another episode. But today, I'm going to talk about the benefits, I'm going to talk about the cost of becoming a foreigner, of choosing to be a foreigner, and I'm going to be up-front.

In the learning section, I will talk about a typical sound from Buenos Aires. I will tell how to pronounce the double "ll" and the "y" in Porteño Spanish.

If you listen to how I pronounce the ‘ll’ and ‘y’, you’ll hear the sound [ ʃ ] which you can hear in the English words “shallow” or “sugar” for example. It’s typical from Buenos Aires.

Pay attention to this sound in my podcast. For example, in this episode you can hear it in the first few sentences:

“Una de mis hermanas y yo tenemos algo en común.Decidimos irnos, vivir afuera. Nos volvimos extranjeras. Hace poco, charlamos, ella y yo, y no me acuerdo por qué, pero mencionó una frase que yo había dicho que le llamó la atención.”

You can also find the full transcription ;)
https://www.nolwenn-languages.com/post/nlcp-episode-6-c%C3%B3mo-se-pronuncia-la-doble-ll-y-la-y-en-buenos-aires