2025-07-11
7 分钟Foreign language anxiety.
A lot of people feel uncomfortable when they're in a foreign language situation.
They're afraid that they won't understand, that they can't express themselves,
that people will judge their grammar, judge their accent.
They're afraid they won't be able to find the words that they need.
This is particularly true in a classroom environment, I find,
where students are forced to speak in front of others, read aloud in front of others.
Some anxiety may be related to tests.
So not only an evaluation in terms of he or she is good or bad,
but rather that the person will get bad marks.
And if you look at the link that I provided from the article from Wikipedia,
a large part of this anxiety comes from the fact that as...
speakers of a language that we are learning we are in a situation that we can't really control we can't control how well we'll do in some regards we can't control how other people will react to what we have to say it's a bit of an uncertain environment now i have said before that we need to accept uncertainty
if we want to be successful language learners we need to accept mistakes however it's not easy to change one's personality and in fact there is an article showing that more than a knack for language learning it's this well this to expose ourselves,
to not have so much self-doubt,
this mindset of charging forward despite the risks, all of this is important.
However, it's not easy to change our personality.
It's not easy to change our mindset.
So I want to introduce you to something that I have found.
When it comes to language learning, I don't actually have a lot of anxiety.