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| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5540 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 17 of 20 05 January 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | ||
I subscribe to his channel, I always enjoy what he has to say, although I don't always agree with everything. One of the keys to learning that he mentions is motivation, the subject of this thread incidentally. Fortunately, or unfortunately, I'm not a very talkative person so the fact that I don't have anyone to speak French with doesn't bother me at all. What motivates me is to be able to understand podcasts, articles, extracts from books that I read. I always have a lot of issues with self-discipline. I prefer taking small steps very often, something that Khatzumoto from AJATT wrote about. Ultimately everyone has to find something that drives him. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5678 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 18 of 20 05 January 2012 at 11:49pm | IP Logged | ||
Suggestion: Maybe if you were to list your native language and the 6 languages you are studying, in your profile here, someone on HTLAL might want to talk to you. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5541 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 19 of 20 06 January 2012 at 1:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, Steve Kaufman is certainly opinionated and isn't afraid to share his opinion. Even if you don't agree with him, it's obvious he's thought out his points in detail.
I always think that as long as your motivation to learn is greater than any frustration you feel while trying to learn, you'll succeed. If you have a weak motivation, you probably won't last long. One thing I was thinking of is that we could look at language learning like a collection. Instead of collecting silver coins or postage stamps, we're collecting words, idioms, grammar constructions, and phrases. I'm not an avid collector, but the thrill of collection comes from its value and finding unexpected bargains. Obviously the longer you collect and the more time & money you spend, the greater value your collection has. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TrentBooks Triglot Groupie United States TrentBooks.com Joined 4666 days ago 43 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Guarani Studies: Biblical Hebrew, Japanese | Message 20 of 20 07 January 2012 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||
The 2 most valuable pieces of information I've acquired (through experience and research) about language learning are: 1. Motivation determines how fast a language is learned more than any other component of language learning. Even immersion is useless if you're not motivated to learn. 2. Motivation remains high when real growth occurs. Achieving growth is absolutely critical to maintaining high levels of motivation in language learning. The factors that lead to growth are too varied and complicated to include in a single post here, but if you focus on growth - even small, simple steps of growth - you'll advance in your language learning much more quickly. Achieving growth depends on the individual, obviously, but if you can figure that out for yourself language learning is a piece of cake. Edited by TrentBooks on 07 January 2012 at 6:09pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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