English has been a huge part of my life for two years Do you think that having a good accent is essential in your learning process? It's hard to get a native accent, maybe impossible. Some people have a knack on mastering a foreign accent. My goal would be to speak fluently without searching for my words. This learning process is a long journey, a marathon. When you decide yourself to get into this long run, it might be hard to keep on the pace. Because I've chosen to teach U.S English to my daughter since she was 6 months old, I've been encountering many hinds. The thing really hard for me is to get out of my comfort zone. For instance, when my daughter does something bad, like silly things and I have to explain her why she shouldn't behave that way, I may look for my words and not make a smooth sentence. It's frustating me. Because as I said many times in different posts on Italki, I have the feeling that I'm better when I speak to myself... I don't know why. Maybe it's just an illusion. I guess I've improved myself a lot since I've started to get involved in this lifestyle. Yes it's a new lifestyle. Everyday I've got to switch between French and English to adress my wife or my daughter. Yesterday called on my mother (I mean visit) for an hour. She is so happy to speak English with my daughter. Even if my mother has a low level, she likes to share this particularity with my kiddo. Nobody is bilingual in my family nor speaks a second language perfectly exept my wife who was born in Morocco and speaks Arabic as first language. So when my relatives are with my daugher, they are happy to try to speak English with them. Some of them are amazed, some are envious, some are puzzled and some others wonder how she''ll do next September when she'll have to go to school for her first year of scholarship. I had warned my acquaintances, relatives of my will to learn and teach this language as much as I could.