Why you can’t remember words while speaking (and how to fix that) - Çift Dilli Altyazılar
You struck up a conversation in a foreign language and then this happens.
You don't remember a specific word.
You you feel bad, you start overthinking it, you doubt your language skills, you think you should just quit.
This is something that was going through my mind a few weeks ago when I had a very stressful interaction with a hair stylist.
Yeah, the story is pretty interesting because I live in Mexico City, I'm learning Spanish right now, so I decided to go get a haircut.
But before that, I actually wanted to make sure that this hair salon had specific hair treatments that I was interested in, and I want.
I'm all happy,
you know,
I was gonna talk to this amazing hairstyleist right now and then I find myself totally blanking out What I mean is I couldn't say I need a haircut.
I couldn't ask.
Oh, what kind of hair treatments do you guys have here?
I did not remember any word connected to hair hairstyles and hair styles
hair treatments and it was just like um so my hair um blonde uh dry all get a haircut.
So it was just a bunch of random words and I couldn't connect them together.
So what did I learn from that interaction?
Why couldn't I remember words while I was talking to that person?
I think the first reason was definitely limited vocabulary.
I just didn't know enough vocabulary.
It connected to the topic of hair and hairstyling and it was totally okay.
Again, instead of
situation as oh my god it's the biggest problem ever I saw this as
an opportunity to grow I was like okay I don't know a lot of words that are
connected to hair hairstyling let me learn them because I know that once I learn them I'm gonna feel a lot more confident.
A small vocabulary restricts word choices, leading to difficulty in finding the right words.
And happens to every single language learner out there.
So when I came back home,
I watched a bunch of videos about hair in Spanish, about hair treatments, hairstyles, so that I could feel more confident.
I my teacher and I was like, hey, please, can you prepare?
A lesson for me about hair everything connected to hair and my Spanish teacher was kind enough to do so and I was so grateful
I memorized all the words and now I knew what I wanted to say and I feel confident in my words
The next reason was definitely the anxiety and the stress that I was experiencing in the moment.
To be completely honest now,
thinking back, I could have expressed myself in a good way even with the limited vocabulary that I had at the time.
I knew all the basic words and honestly they could have been enough like to cut or cool or yellow.
The only problem at the time were the high expectations.
that I've put in myself and the desire to sound perfect in Spanish.
I actually recently realized that I struggle with this like problem like high expectations a lot and as a language
learner it is definitely not serving me.
I expect to know all of these words connected to hair in Spanish because I'm not a native Spanish speaker.
But sometimes I do.
And analyzing all those situations, all of my past experiences help me understand why I had those high expectations and how to deal with them.
And important thing that I've come to realize that I was actually afraid of making mistakes?
I want it to sound perfect in Spanish all the time,
and even though on this YouTube channel, I talk about it all the time, you know, it's okay to make mistakes.
Sometimes it's easier said than done.
And now I always try to remind myself that mistakes are all a part of the journey.
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The next reason why I felt like I couldn't really talk to that hairstylist was because of the interference of my native language.
In that moment, I honestly felt like I knew all the words in English.
I knew all of those words in Russian.
And honestly, it's pretty funny how like I knew the words in English.
Even though English is not my native language,
but of course right now my English level is a lot higher than my Spanish level But I feel like also because I put too much pressure on my
I couldn't just take a second and tell that lady in Spanish that I'm sorry.
I'm not from here I'm studying Spanish, but right now I forgot all the words.
Can you please help me?
Unfortunately in that situation using English was not an option for me because she told me she didn't speak
English So I had to rely on my Spanish and probably that's also another thing that was
Increasing the pressure and I felt like Spanish is the only language I can use right now.
So a moment to get yourself out of that negative loop of comparing all the languages you're learning and feeling like,
oh my god, in this language, I could have said it perfectly.
In language, I can barely say it.
It is absolutely okay.
Every single language you're learning.
is a new journey and you're at different stages of every single journey.
If it's possible, you can ask this person to switch to a different language and explain to them that you are a learner.
You're only learning this language.
You also always use Google Translate, deep or chat GPT to help you here.
Don't channel.
That's exactly what happened to me.
I froze and I was like, that's it.
Like, I don't know how to say this word, and I can't do anything about it.
No, there's so many different things you can do.
And I started analyzing this situation, I realized that, oh my God, I had my phone like almost in my hand.
I could have opened Google Translate and translated all of these words from English to Spanish.
Okay, now I think we're gonna talk about the biggest reason why I kind of struggled at that moment.
I think I just didn't have enough speaking practice.
And especially enough speaking practice that is connected to this specific topic of hair treatments, haircuts, stuff like that.
When I came back home, I realized that I had never actually talked about my hair in Spanish, like ever.
Not only did I have limited vocabulary in this topic, but I also never even talked about it.
So what I did was I booked a lesson with my teacher
and you can do the exact same thing on Life XB and choose fashion as your interest, for example.
And I just spent an hour talking to my teacher about Hair treatments, hairstyles and stuff like that.
And if you like by the end of that lesson, I was like, I know everything.
Like feel extremely confident.
And I know that now I can explain that my hair is blonde, that I need this, that I need a haircut.
It me so much.
Did feel confident after this class?
I sure did.
So it's not just about speaking Sometimes we need to talk about a specific topic to get fully comfortable and learn new words.
Because living in Mexico City, almost every single day I interact with people in Spanish.
I do get speaking practice in Spanish.
The problem was, I don't get a lot of speaking practice in about hair in Spanish.
But I did, and I feel a more confident.
So I think it's gonna be it for this video for my story.
I hope you guys learned something new.
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If you're thinking about what to watch next, you can check out the video where I challenged myself to speak Spanish for 24 hours.
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