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Bilingual Interview : Laetitia DUMAS takes on the world !

Bilingual Interview : Laetitia DUMAS takes on the world !

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 Laetitia Dumas : KPI For Change. Sponsor https://www.editions-ellipses.fr/accueil/14485-cerveau-et-emotions-a-l-adolescence-les-neurosciences-au-service-des-competences-sociales-et-emotionnelles-dans-l-enseignement-9782340072930.html English transcript: Hi, I'm Hannah, and welcome back to Don't Say It, a podcast designed to help you master the finer details of the English language. Let's welcome today's guest, Hi Laetitia. Hi. Thank you so much for talking with me today. I will start with questions in English, and then we will discuss your learning process in French. How does that sound? Nice. Perfect. First question what is your favorite word in English and why? I have a lot of favorite words, but there's one that came recently, which is empowerment. I love that word. I like it because I don't really know how to translate it in English. There is the idea of power and transform our choices and choose our life. And I don't know how to translate it in French. And if I translate it, it's like, very bad. It sounds bad. We don't see that word very much, but we see empowerment a lot in documents or in political messages and now in management. It feels a lot in management. And I like it because the first time I heard about it, it was because my colleague Solene was part of an association which is called Empower Her, and it helps women to empower their life. And that's a French association? I think it's an international association. And I like the idea that they have to be stronger, more confident and help her and help other persons to control their life. If you are going to use this word in French, would you use more or would you use maybe the English empowerment? I like to use it in French. If I use like a French word, a similar one, it would be maybe pouvoir d’agir. It's not the same meaning, I think. Yeah. Empowerment means the result is you’re strong. Whereas those French words, they sort of seem temporary, whereas empowerment is like growth. Yes. It's not a big word. I love it. What word or expression is the most complicated for you in English? I think a lot of words and all these kind of small words that are false friends, like, currently, accurately, and a lot of small words that we can use every day. And the changes, which are very common. Yeah. PAUSE I like to tell stories about mistakes I made because they're usually so funny. Do you have a story for us about mistakes you made in English when you were learning? Oh, yes, I have a funny one and I still remember it. When I was in the United States, I was part of the swim team, which was called Helix Warriors. One time I lost my goggles, and I was searching them and I asked all the people, like, where are my Googles? And I could see the Google with the 2 ‘o’s. I'm not sure it's the right word, but anyway, there was a guy called Mark, very nice and funny. He was like, no, you don't use the right word. It's Google. Okay. And all the yeah, it was like during the whole year of swimming. Do you have your Googles? I was like, oh, no. And was it funny or did you feel bad? No, first I felt like a little bit bad because it's not hard work, but it doesn't really matter because it was funny, and they were very nice because they didn't speak a word of French. So I was just impressed by the fact that we could use words in English. Goggles is a very specific technical term as well. And goggle is a cute word. And Google is a cute word. Yeah, it's cute in both ways. So how much time did you spend in America? I stayed ten months in an American university while in college. How old were you? I was pretty old for a student. I was 25 years old. Do you recommend this kind of experience? Yes, I really recommend it. It was very nice and interesting to live the American student life in a college. I'm not sure that I could have stayed there, like, for two, three, four years, but one year was very interesting. The culture is very different to French culture in America. What was the most surprising pa

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