Today was the first day of my conversation club at DeutschAkademie. It takes place every Friday in the mornings for one and a half hour, this month due to the holidays, we are taking 3 days of two hours each one.

I enrolled in it because I need more hours to practice my speaking. I’ve read that to be a professional in any field, like languages, mathematics, and music, whatever that you want to do with your live, you need 40.000 hours of practice in this field. This means that you don’t need to be an expert in anything, you just need practice and persistence to become an expert in something.

Therefore I need to practice my speaking German as much as I can, and this is a good way to do it. We start with a self-presentation, everybody was shy, but after some minutes we could break the ice and little by little we start talking more. In this conversation club the teacher is in the class to serve as mediator and propose topics of conversation, also to correct our mistakes. So I will add some hours to my 40.000 hours improving my German.