HELP ME PLEASE ON THIS ASIGNEMENT A Quick Note on Getting Better at Difficult Things" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

I have been studying the French language, with some consistency, for three years. This field of study has

been, all at once, the hardest and most rewarding of my life. I would put it above the study of writing

simply because I started writing as a 6-year-old boy under my mother’s tutelage. I always “felt” I could

write. I did not always “feel” I could effectively study a foreign language.

I am emphasizing how I “feel” because, when studying, it is as important as any objective reality. Hopelessness feeds the fatigue that leads the student to quit. It is not the study of language that is hard, so much as the "feeling” that your present level is who you are and who you will always be. I remember returning from France at the end of the summer of 2013, and being convinced that I had some kind of brain injury which prevented me from hearing French vowel sounds. But the real enemy was not any injury so much as the “feeling” of despair. That is why I ignore all the research about children and their language advantage. I don’t want to hear it. I just don’t care. As Carolyn Fouche would say — “I’m going to have it.”

I don’t know what comes after this. I have said this before, and will say it again: Studying French is like setting in a canoe from California to China. You arrive on the coast of Hawaii and think, “Wow that was really far.” And then you realize that China is still so very far away. “Feelings” come and go. Likely, someone will say something— in the next hour or so — which I do not understand and I will feel a little hopeless again. But right now, I feel high. And one must savor those moments of feeling high, because they are not the norm. The lows are the norm. The Struggle is the norm. May it ever be thus.

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