
Language milestones become far more important when you take the language out of the classroom. Photo (cc) flickr user -Georg-
Foreign language milestones during school never seemed particularly important: you pass another vocabulary test, you manage to stumble through another book with a little less dictionary hopping. Ho-hum, another day of school. But when that language becomes the currency of your life, those milestones suddenly become monumental.
The first time you manage to order dinner at a restaurant completely in German is so exciting that you e-mail your friends to tell them about it. The first time the woman behind the counter at the bakery asks you something and your reply doesn’t make her switch automatically over to English you buy an extra celebratory pastry. And when you finally manage to make a telephone call without breaking into a cold sweat or causing an epic misunderstanding you’re ready to throw a party.
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