Language is like Music.
Learning a new language is like learning to read music: You're expected to look at something completely different than you've ever known and figure out how it sounds, or listen to something you've never heard and determine what it looks like.
Years ago a piano tuner came to our house. "Practice doesn't make perfect," he said to my sisters and me, young piano students at the time. "Practice makes permanent." For months - years even - after that man visited our home and shared that phrase, my mother continued to repeat it. I hated it. HATED it.
Yet as Jordan connected language learning and music at the breakfast table, that phrase came back and made perfect sense.
As we continue to practice our French, it's necessary to practice it correctly - even the sounds that are seemingly impossible for anglophones like us - because practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent.
Years ago a piano tuner came to our house. "Practice doesn't make perfect," he said to my sisters and me, young piano students at the time. "Practice makes permanent." For months - years even - after that man visited our home and shared that phrase, my mother continued to repeat it. I hated it. HATED it.
Yet as Jordan connected language learning and music at the breakfast table, that phrase came back and made perfect sense.
As we continue to practice our French, it's necessary to practice it correctly - even the sounds that are seemingly impossible for anglophones like us - because practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent.
I find the "u" sounds terribly difficult. How about you?
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