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English Interview : Neuroscience and learrning with Ellen Bales

English Interview : Neuroscience and learrning with Ellen Bales

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 https://www.adolescence-neuroscien www.korutraduction.fr TRANSCRIPT: I wish I could learn everything without mistakes. Nah, wouldn't be fun. Hi, I'm Hannah, and welcome back to don't say it. A podcast designed to help you work on the finer details of the English language. I am so lucky to be joined with author mum and teacher and sponsor Ellen Bales. Hi, Ellen. Hi, Hannah. Ellen, what is your favorite English word? This has to be lullaby. I love the way it sounds. I love the way it melts in your mouth. Definitely. it refers to a very nice moment when you're with your kids, they're about to go to sleep and you sing a _______ lullabye. Birdland it's one of my favorite songs. Yes, because of a song. The way it sounds is so nice. For example, contrary to stroke, for example, to stroke. The idea of caresse doesn't fit with the way it sounds in English. So it's not logical to me. Stroke doesn't evoke something very nice. Caresses, gentle like caress, caress in poems we often say the water caresses, caresses_____. Oh, that's right. The water caressing in the sand. There's some words. I remember when I learned the word. Do you remember when you learned the word lullaby? Must have been at university. Yes, I immediately loved it. I remember that. Oh, yes, that's the word one. Then there are some places when they sound nice, like Nebraska, New Hampshire, Thailand. How long did it take you to become fluent, like really comfortable in your English? Ten years. I started like, at the same age as any school kid in France. I was already interested in the English language. I remember my mom, she could speak very good English, and I would ask her some words. Mama, _____________. And I remember I already knew a few words before, and I loved every minute of it. I would participate in class a lot. Then my parents sent me to Ireland, to England, and eventually I went to the United States. So I don't know. There's something with this, with the English language, with me. The English language and me, we are very, very good friends. Can you tell us a story about a mistake you made in the past in English? 2s Well, I remember this particular time and 1s there was this inspector coming to my class and 1s he was checking on my teaching and afterwards we were talking about how things went and he told me, I almost thought you were in speaker, but then you made a mistake and you said particular. 1s And I said, oh, really? I must have been stressed out then. And he said, no, I don't think so. 1s I could feel you were quite at ease with your students and that was it. What could I say? He was right. I mean, at the time, particular was pronounced 1s particular. I guess I can't even say it now, but anyway, so you didn't learn from that mistake. I did learn from that. You say 1s memories. Did you appreciate him saying that to you? Do you think it was a bit rude or he was being straightforward, that's for sure. But he was right. He was right. The stress in the world was not placed correctly. So I'm always eager to learn it's alright to make a mistake. Plus eventually 1s I had passed, so it's good to make mistakes. When you learn a language, you learn there's no other way around. You learn from your mistakes. When I was teaching adults, I would especially say you have enough vocabulary, you need to work on the intonation so that you feel more comfortable and you sound more English. If they want to sound more English, they'll talk about their accent. Oh, my accent is terrible, terrible. 1s And they'll say, no, it's just the intonation that needs to be it's true, it's true. That's my piece of advice. When you don't know how to pronounce a word correctly, then check where the stress, the main stress is on the word comfortable. And then you know where to stress and then it's easier to pronounce it and you can keep your blue, the little French trait. People say our French accent is romantic 1s and very sexy. I don't know, 3s it was really interesting. We will take a short

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