What Does Learning Korean Have To Do With Your Mobility Training?
What Does Learning Korean Have To Do With Your Mobility Training?
Unlock the language of your movement potential
Many of you may have read part of my ongoing chronicles about my time living in abroad. The narrative begins in Thailand, but the story really takes root in Korea where my life took an unexpected turn that would change me forever. During my time living in Korea, seeds were planted that I wouldn’t reap the benefits of until much later in life. I didn’t know it then. I had no idea when, how or why at that time. But over time, the experiences would grow into the fertile bedding necessary for me to become the coach and teacher that I am today.
While living in Korea I learned how to read the language. Outside of the years of Spanish in school, I didn’t have much language learning experience. I definitely didn’t think I would learn an Asian language. I wrote most Asian languages off as impossible because it just seemed so distant from the Latin basis of English. I also allowed people who spoke those languages to confine me to the learning constraints they believed were too difficult to move beyond as an adult.
Well they were wrong. I’ve gone on to learn how to get around Thailand using basic Thai and I have friends who learned to speak it fluently as adults. I’ve learned to understand my wife’s scolding and questioning of our children in Malay and I’ve learned elementary formal Mandarin so I can keep up with my children who are fully immersed.
Our brain is limitless. I guess I should say our brain is as limited as we decide the limitations will be.
I guess I say all of this to say that your Mobility is a possibility.
Mobility is not just given, it’s earned. It requires energy be put into obtaining it. It requires you to do the work.
On the surface, this starts to give us some insights to how Mobility Training might be related to learning Korean, but let’s break it down a bit further with this short Korean language lesson.