Is this why you’re learning French? This is my story

IS THIS WHY YOU’RE LEARNING FRENCH? THIS IS MY STORY

So, have you ever wondered what will you do once you speak French? Why are you learning French?

Many of us dream, but few of us actually allow ourselves to name it!

Maybe we don’t even know what plans we will have as the new person we become, until we try it on, like a pair of magic shoes!

Check the article below for some surprising introspective insights, and watch the video for some French you should allow into your life!

(This week: the verb PERMETTRE – to allow)

Did this ever cross your mind?

I’m in my backyard, sitting at the old glass table with way too many memories, on an old plastic yellow chair (why don’t they make the chairs in yellow, is this perhaps a forbidden color? Oh, well, I’ll wait for Ikea to come up with their next yellow chair… until then…) and I am wondering when will my noisy neighbors will come back home.

Meanwhile, I’m taking advantage of the chirping, soothing sound of the air conditioning (not mine, but man, is it loud!) and the soft breeze of this wonderful Friday afternoon to write for you.

I’m reflecting on my lifestyle.

Coming all the way to Canada from Europe, in a culture that felt so different from home that I was comparing to Mars versus the familiar Earth for the first year.

What made me change the earth I was stepping on, the food (so differently tasting and, forgive me, dear Canadians, but not in a good way), the water which felt so much harder on my hair and skin, the culture that was foreign and people more distant than I thought they would be?

I did come to a sky that I never thought can be that majestic, a wilderness and beauty of the nature that can take your breath away, art in the street and people helping me more than I could imagine it would be possible.

I came for the opportunity of proving myself that I can conquer the unexpected.

I came for the lifestyle.

But the changes didn’t stop here. After many years of many adventures and many challenges, I am now headed to a lifestyle involving travel and choice of my land depending on the season. I can now work from anywhere in the world and, guess what? I do just that.

So what was the motivator for my change of roots?

Lifestyle.

I wanted to taste the lifestyle that I was reading about. I’d love to taste a little bit of everything that fascinates me and, eventually, find or create the place that I can call ‘home’.

But perhaps that ‘home’ is not a special place, not even a special person, it is more who I become in the process.

Which is what I believe that you do too. It could be the one thing that you and I have in common.

French is probably that something that you need in your life in order to feel good, to feel more expressive, to feel yourself.

French is probably something that gives you the feeling that you are creating the lifestyle that you are supposed to have.

The adventurous you who doesn’t have an outlet in your society, dreams that one day you’ll be in Paris as romantic as one can be. To try this lifestyle on like a new shirt and magically be able to be the you that can sing in the rain and walk at night by the Seine.

That you who didn’t practice this lifestyle since teenage or young adulthood, now claims the space.

At least for an hour a week, or a week in the year, we can dream to be what we are supposed to – a fully expressed, bigger than life soul testing the places and the people for familiar fragrances.

Because if not now, then when?

Next step: learn French and design your lifestyle – then come back and tell us one insight from your adventure.

NOW IT IS YOUR TURN!
Tell us in the comments below, what is the ultimate reason that keeps you learning French?

Let me guess.