SPEAKING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS A HABIT

 

Speaking a Foreign Language is a Habit

Language is a habit. 

There is no such a FOREIGN language in depth but unfamiliar language. 

Your mother tongue used to be an unfamiliar language to you. 

Every language can be yours. 

If you are learning another language, it is on the way to becoming a familiar language. 

As long as you deem it as a foreign language, you are only likely to identify the gap between your mother tongue and a new language.

It is all up to whether you have a habit of speaking that language or not. 

It is not unusual to see people shifting back to a mother tongue 

when they are struggling with expressing themselves in a language that they are learning. 

It is not a familiar language yet.

 Subsequently, people are likely to go back to the same old comfortable habit 

because language is a habit! 

They speak that language habitually and smoothly.

You may realize that when you can speak another language, that specific language is already incorporated in your life. 

For example, your mother is English, and your father is Spanish. 

What those languages offer is a part of your life. 

Or you may grow up in Spain, but your parents are English. 

Once you go out, Spanish is spoken. 

But at your home, you are likely to be exposed what English culture offers. 

What does this mean? 

Or you have many foreign friends then you need to communicate with them by not using your mother tongue.

Language is a habit. 

Those people speak, write, read and listen regularly two languages. 

Thanks to our technology, nowadays, 

we can be exposed to other cultures digitally. 

We need to form a habit to expose ourselves to 

what a language offers by speaking, writing, reading, and listening every possible way 

until a language will become part of yourself.  

It takes time 

because it is a transformation of yourself and your life. 

However, I know it is possible. 

Speaking and writing help you with a habit-forming 

because your muscle memorizes words and expressions instead of your brain.

How do I know how to use chopsticks? 

I do not use chopsticks every single day anymore but when I was a kid, I used it habitually. 

My hands are not going to forget how to use it. 

Your tongue and hands are not likely to forget how to speak and write 

if you invest your time progressively in a language-learning for a sufficient time.

When I eat Italian pasta, I am likely to use chopsticks. 

However, I can use folk and spoon to eat it. We have similar noodles food, and we all have it with chopsticks in Asia. 

At the end of the day, these instruments serve to put the food into your mouth. 

They have the same function but have different forms.

Thanks for reading,

Hilano Aquihisa