Growing Up IB: Jiana Shah 3.0

Yeah.

And so in school, what were the subjects that you were most engaged with?

So my subjects that probably I think were economics, global politics, math approaches and analysis.

And I think even when I was in the MYP, these were the subjects that interested me the most.

It was no surprise that I took them at the higher level once I entered DP.

But I also did French ab initio, English language and literature, along with chemistry SL for French is a really interesting one here because as you guys now know, I'm from India.

It's not a very famous or widely spoken language here.

So back when I was in ninth grade, I decided that I wanted to learn French and it was offered through the DP program.

So I started learning French out of this thought process that if I already start, then by the time I'm there in 11th grade, I'll probably have a good grasp of it.

And funnily enough, because of that, I am now going to college in Paris.

Oh,

really? Yeah.

So I am heading off to HEC Paris.

So it kind of all just worked out in its favor just because I thought that I knew I wanted to learn French ab initio in DP.

I started learning in NYP and now because of the fluency I achieved, I'm able to go to Paris for college.

How awesome is that?

That's cool.

So even with the ab initio, which is sometimes thought of not getting you to fluency, you've been able to do that.

Yeah, no, for sure.

And I think it also like, I started learning French on my own for two years.

So, but I think even as I entered the Ab initio, there was like a structural absence where I could not grasp the, I would say like the grammar dictums of the language.

I could understand it, but it was all very, I would just say like the Ab initio helped me build a foundation.

Okay.

for the language so it was beyond just conversational fluency i now knew like how sentence structures work and i think we don't think that much about this when we talk about english but i think once you start doing any language whether that's ab initio sl or hl i think it really shows you just how language structures work and how important they are even without us realizing it

Yeah, I think when you learn a language early, those things come naturally.