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[Part 2] How I became passionated about languages ?
After watching the TV report about Tim Doner, the journey officially has begun.

I started to search on the internet about Tim Doner.

Watching videos on his Youtube Channel.

Especially, the famous one were he speaks the 20 languages he knew.



I soon realized that he was not alone.

There were a lot of big names in this community.

Richard Simcott, Luca Lampariello, Steve Kaufman, etc etc.

Then, I started to learn about the tools, the books that were used by these polyglots.

Assimil, Teach Yourself, etc.

I discovered Anki, flash cards app.

I didn't know which language I picked up first, I wanted to pick them all at once.

But still, I was wondering always one question:

"How can one individual learn so many languages?".

I remember looking everything I could to get any information about Tim Doner's method.

I'm sure I went over the 2nd and the 3rd page of Google.

The one nobody goes usually.

That shows I went really far.

The days were passing, and the more I looked into languages, the more I loved them.

There was always this feeling of excitement, mystery, fascination.

I wanted to crack the code desperately.

I didn't understand how they learned language.

There were no "absolute method".

It was a bit messy, so I set out to find THE method.

One thing for sure is there was something new I didn't experienced before.

It was the strange feeling that it was obvious to me.

Language became my passion.

Just after watching Tim's TV report, that was it.

I signed for this journey.
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