When I moved from Romania to the UK, I was looking forward to speaking more English and better the knowledge of this language and maybe, hopefully improve my accent. I’ve mentioned before that I am a little defective and I just cannot hear in my own accent. I would be recording some presentation, and, in my head I would sound like Emma Watson but in reality, I sounded like Olga Kurylenko in James Bond. It’s not that bad, and if I’d look like her probably nobody would care about my accent, but I’m in no way similar to her.
One of the things I’ve had issues with when moving to the UK, and speaking way more English than before, is that is very difficult to build a complex idea in a language that I learned later in life. It works when I write books and write articles for this blog, because I have time to go over the idea in my head repeatedly, I can go over the text repeatedly and make sure the idea is expressed clearly and articulately. This barely works in conversations, because complex ideas require a lot of words, and arranging them takes me a while and by the time I can state my idea/opinion the conversation has already gone to some other subject. It was a problem initially, and when I tried to participate into conversations, I ended up spewing out some half-cooked ideas, which even sounded offensive sometimes.