How Learning a Foreign Language Reignited My Imagination

[Francis Hult]

The Atlantic



How Learning a Foreign Language Reignited My Imagination



I started studying French in the summer of 2011, in the throes of a mid-30s crisis. I wanted to be young again. Once, imagination was crucial to me. The books filled with trains, the toy tracks and trestles—they were among my few escapes from a world bounded by my parents’ will. In those days, I could look at a map of some foreign place and tell you a story about how the people there looked, how they lived, what they ate for dinner, and the exotic beauty of the neighborhood girls.



Full story:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/pardon-my-french/309316/?google_editors_picks=true
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