Bart est mon héros
In the Simpsons episode The Crepes of Wrath, Bart goes to France as an exchange student and is forced to make wine with anti-freeze. This is based on a kinda-true story. Anti-freeze is tasty! Near the end of the episode, as he's trying to get a police officer to help him, Bart berates himself for not learning the language and suddenly French just rolls off his tongue. In that instant, he gets how to speak French.
It would be a financial tragedy for language schools and instructors if students could experience this epiphany on his or her journey of language study. Since it probably never happens at all, I'm content to lower the bar and be really happy when I understand more than two sentences of French at a time.
I call these my Bart Moments. It happens when:
- I hear several French sentences and comprehend the meaning as it's being said.
- I respond to a question in French without having to think of it initially in English.
- I use proper grammar the first time around. This rarely happens in any language I speak so, for me, this is going for the gold.
Bart is my hero.
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