Commit to a personal process with confidence

I could see that the first interview wasn’t working, I couldn’t get him into the posture of self-direction, so I saw him a second time and he said, well, I’ve bought a grammar book and I’m starting to learn the declensions in German. So we come back to his objectives. What were your objectives? My goals are to get by in Germany when I go there for weekends. So what’s the connection between learning declensions and your goal? Well, it’s obviously a bit difficult. And he starts to say to me, but does that mean I can do something other than what they’ve always done for me to learn languages? Well, I say yes, we’re going to start asking the questions, I’ll skip the details, we start putting our objectives on the table, what we could possibly do and so on. He’d started recording himself from little films he’d found on the Internet, recording productions in German and he’d made contact with German speakers and he asked me what he could do with them, in short, he was committed to the process. So that’s a really great memory because he’s someone who didn’t trust himself, who thought that only other people could teach him languages, so he managed on his own.