English with Kirsty – episode 269
Our brain, emotions, and language learning with Alice Mansaud
You can listen to episode 269 here:
This week I have a returning guest – Alice Mansaud. You can check out our first conversation in episode 230.
We talked about
- Alice’s Neurolanguage coach certification and how what she learned during the training helps her now in her role as a teacher
- The journey to become ourselves in our additional languages – accepting that it is a journey and figuring out what works for you
- The role of emotions in the learning process
- Naming the negative emotions so we can find the best way to process them and build strategies for similar situations in the future.
- Finding some smaller milestones between where you are now and where you want to be in the future
- Preparing is not a waste of time – you can’t prepare for everything, but you can take some steps to make your life easier if you know you’ll have to do a new or more challenging thing in the future.
This is where you can find more details about the book that Alice mentioned in our interview.
We talked about all kinds of challenges when you’re using language in a practical sense, from fear of not understanding others to looking for a new apartment. Did any of our suggestions resonate with you? Are you planning to try out any of our suggestions?
Who is Alice?
Alice Mansaud is a French coach and podcaster whom I discovered through The Language Worker podcast.
In France, Italy, Poland, Spain…Alice has always cherished international encounters and experiences, so much she decided to teach her native language, French to non-French speakers! Through her own journey in learning languages and expatriation, she explored the power of the brain and life challenges, which led her to create her own method. With “Moi-même en français”, she helps non-French speakers to learn and absorb French in order to be(come) themselves in French.
She accompanies non-French speakers in a holistic approach with targeted language coaching and her pedagogical universe: “Moi-même en français” podcast and blog, the “Lettre du Moi(s)” newsletter and the “Arbre du français” French resources mindmap.
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