NLP

The process of learning a second language can get scary and intimidating at times, especially for adult learners, who have developed and established their individual identities, beliefs, and patterns of behaviour. Although we may not always be aware of how our mother tongue and our use of it influences the way we look at life and ourselves, and the comfortable, confident and secure way in which wed use the mother tongue, fluent and efficient self-expression, which I believe is the gist of being a “social animal”, sometimes becomes a tool for communication, sometimes a means of establishing self-esteem, and sometimes, a method of self defence.
Humans, especially after reaching a certain age and after getting used to the ways of life, seem to take their confident use of the mother tongue for granted, just as we take for granted the value of breathing and do not even notice, most of the time, that as a living organism, human breathes. Therefore, when exposed to a new means of commun...