My first speech in English Hi, good evening to everyone, I hope you are having a good time. I must admit that I feel a little nervous this night, but I’ll try don’t show it too much. My experience with the English always has been a little peculiar, even disagreeable at the begin. Yes, I have to admit it, for a long time I hated this language. If some years ago someone had told me that one day I’d have to give an speech in English in front of a lot of people, I would have said something like “English? No way, it’s impossible!”. And… see me now… here I am. It’s curious how to learn a new language can change your perspective about the things. It’s incredible what happens at brain level when you learn a new word in other language without translation in your own language. But also it’s strange can’t translate exactly to another language the phrases that you use everyday. With English all we have almost always the same problem: we always are fighting with the pronunciation and with the fear to speak it out loud. But I think that is nothing if we compare it with the benefits to learn a new tounge, and I’m not only talking about education or economic benefits. When we learn a new language, whichever is, not only we are learning grammatical rules, but also a new cosmovision. I mean, every tounge is a different way to understand the world because every tounge has its own structure, its own meanings, its own words and expressions, and its own “life”. Therefore, every language constructs its own reality. When we are learning a language, we start to notice how, little by little, our brain starts to restructure the way that we have to organize the words, the phrases, the ideas and thoughts to can express ourselves coherently. That is a slow process, we can’t do it of the night to the morning, so we must be patients and very constants, and above all, stay motivated. So, I would want to draw on this night to thank all the people who have supported me in this process: my lovely family, especially my mother, and all my teachers and partners in Golden English who have taught me more than rules and words, thanks for help me and learn with me. I'm sure we will can do it better every day if we keep helping each other. Thank you.