Would you like to learn English by expressing your thoughts and gaining more confidence in the process?

If so, you’re like me, and we could learn all that stuff together.

My name is Emmanuel.

I am a French guy in my mid-40s, and I am currently living in Canada.

My purpose is to learn English, develop my writing skills, and enhance my ability to express myself.

In early 2024, as a beginner in all of these domains, I have created this blog ‘English Thought Story’ for 4 reasons:

• To practice my English – I’m an English learner as a second language, currently somewhere between a pre-intermediate and intermediate level as I write this page. Since I’m struggling to learn this language, I believe that writing on this blog will help me improve my English. Therefore, I hope you’ll be tolerant of my English mistakes. 😜
• To practice my self-expression – To learn to express my thoughts, to structure my ideas. This is something I am not used to doing. I’m not naturally expressive, and I envy people who can speak and express their thoughts/emotions easily. Writing blog posts and stories should help improve that.
• To become more confident – I consider myself quite shy and reserved and expressing myself in front of the entire world (or at least those who will read me) will certainly help.
• To find meaning – I’d like to inspire and encourage others, as many other bloggers do for me.

EnglishThoughtStory is intended for English learners who want to learn how to express themselves, in English through stories.

In others words I believe that stories are an effective way to learn and improve languages, while also facilitating personal expression.

I hope you enjoy reading my posts.

Emmanuel