🤨 Are you embarrassed of speaking English in your blog?
❗Disclaimer: I'm not roping you into that, if you don't feel like it, it's totally fine to speak Russian in your blog. This post is for those who badly want to start but whose inhibitions hold them back.
I'm here to change your mindset. You can thank me later! 😉
🗣 1. You know how they say we see ourselves differently through a mirror? How we basically see a distorted version of ourselves meanwhile only fixating solely on our alleged "flaws"?
We are in the grip of our own self-esteem playing tricks on our minds: fractionating our looks into teeny details like uneven teeth or differently-sized ears.👂🏻Whereas others see us as a whole image coupled with charisma, social skills and intelligence.
Same goes for listening to ourselves though a camera/audio recorder/etc. We hear our voices through the prism of our own perception warped by devices. More often than not we are more judgmental and cruel to ourselves than others. We scrutinise our accents, 🙊 pitch, fluency, the simplicity of the word choice and what have you.
When in fact other people couldn't care less.
🗣 2. Are you waiting for that magical moment when you are finally fully satisfied with yourself? Well, let me give you some tough love. It's not coming. Ever.
You will always find something to get better at. Besides, with time your perception of levels and accents will change. ♻ When I first started blogging here, I was showered with compliments on my English, particularly on my pronunciation. Now looking back on the videos I made 5 years ago, I cringe. Mind you, back then I thought I was quite decent.
Blogging was one of the major factors in my language journey that enhanced all my skills.
If you keep delaying blogging in English, 💁♀ the only thing you're accomplishing this way is wasting your time, because:
🗣 3. How many times have you wondered how to get more language exposure in your life?
Well, here is your magic pill. ✨
By sticking to English while recording stories, writing posts, making reels or TikToks or whatever it is you might be into, you will ultimately provide yourself with an outlet for your English-adoring soul and a whole bunch of regular practice.
Believe it or not, 😎 blogging has also bumped my confidence up big time!
So go ahead and put to use this great tool you have at your disposal, all haters be damned!
