Brains are made for challenging

How I started my adventure with languages

I am an only child and the apple in my mum's eye. My father has rarely ever asked my anything about my life. Why it is so, I dunno.

I was about 6 years old when I overheard through the kitchen door my parent's conversation.
I started having English lessons when I was in the kindergarten. I had a little brain but a clever one ;) I remember my parents talking about how fast on the uptake their daughter was. Even my usually reserved (as far as compliments are concerned) father expressed his very positive opinion how fast I learnt English words. Mybe it will sound weird, but at the age of 6 I realized that if I want to accomplish something, I C-A-N. I haven't stopped believeing in it since than.

Henry Ford said: "If you believe that you can you are right. If you believe that you cannot you are right." My second foreign language was German. It took me a great deal of work to learn it! This language had nothing - but really nothing - in common with my first language - Polish.
Every sentence was a hurdle - der, dem, denen, sentence structures, the verb obligatory on the second place.. If at the beginning of my high school somebody had told me that I would choose it as a subject for my high school finals, I would have loughed really loudly. And guess what, I changed my mind and passed German 2002 as the best one out of the whole age group.. Miracles happen! Oh yes, they do.

During my high school years I met a lady (we have no contact anymore) who helped me acquire Italian. I read somewhere that only 1% of Polish people speak Italian as a foreign language. I wanted to belong to this 1%, I wanted to be extraordinary ;) I like to sing in Italian, especially Svegliarsi la mattina from Zero Assoluto. Only because of that song it was worth to learn Italian :D

Late 2009 I started learning Spanish with the new teacher that works in my school in Willingen.
I don't necessary need this language but it is actually very easy for me to pick it up because of my forknowledge of Italian. They say every next language is easier to learn than the previuos
and they are damn right!

I consider myself lucky. Because of the impulse I got when I was six I didn't want to disappoint my parents. A few years later learning became my biggest hobby and passion. It still is. 2007 I opened my own company TLC and I was fortunate enough to have a great deal of clients. Every day I am doing my best to push them forward, motivate and inspire them. It is of course very easy to watch TV every evening (and get your grey matter killed slowly!!) than to repeat and learn vocabulary. And that's what they do. I speak a couple of languages but I cannot express how proud I am of them.

Brains are made for challenging. If we ever meet, I promise, I will challenge yours :-)