Estoy en un proceso de "recolección" y "estandarización" de todo lo que alguna vez he escrito por allí (al menos todo lo que yo creo que sirve de algo). Tres días atrás publiqué "Desarrollo guiado por pruebas - Remix", texto que salvé del hundimiento de Google Knol y que había escrito dos años atrás. Hoy voy a publicar otro post que tiene unos 10 meses de existencia, y que originalmente lo escribí en inglés. El mensaje del texto me parece importante así que no quise perder la oportunidad de compartirlo con todos. Sin más preámbulos, "Stop saying sorry for trying".
"Sorry for my accent" and "sorry for my bad English" have been probably the first two sentences I mastered when I came to this country. I was too ashamed to say anything in front of real Americans because of my terrible pronunciation and grammatical mistakes. At least when you talk, words last seconds in the air, but when you write down something words last forever, so you can imagine how afraid I was about writing a blog post in English.
But here I am one year later. Talking to people and even writing this. For me the balance has been truly positive with the language. Typos? Yes, I'm sure they are everywhere. Accent? Still horrid. But here I am.
The most important lesson I've learned so far: stop saying sorry for trying. I'm doing my job trying to say something... maybe I can't say it perfectly - yet -, but I'm sure I will someday. I work hard trying to listen, I work hard trying to talk... and the good news is I already know how to speak Spanish perfectly. So I'm becoming bilingual step by step - one stair above everybody else who might laugh at my English skills today.
You must believe in yourself, you must work hard and those typos will fade away over time. Don't ever stop because of fear that you will say something grammatically incorrect. Do it, try and forget those who evaluate your spelling instead of listening to what you actually have to say.
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