A Language Learning Tale

Podcast on YouTube: YouTube Link Podcast on Spotify: Spotify Link Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Bienvenidos, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today I’m talking about… Motivation When Life Happens Some people just can’t get motivated when it comes to language learning, or anything else, for that matter. Partially, I think this is to do with how much you actually want something. If you really want to learn a language, you will find the motivation within yourself, no matter what, but there will always be times when you come up against a barrier, one that’s not under your control. Everyone loses motivation sometimes for external reasons, rather than anything to do with the actual language learning. So, when your motivation does fail you in this way, you need to have a back-up plan. Learning a language needs to have become so automatic, that you do...

Listen on Spotify: Spotify Link Listen on YouTube: YouTube Link Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome. Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today, the subject is … I’m Not Making Much Progress with my New Language So, you started learning a new language on the first of January, but you don’t feel like you’re making much progress and you feel like giving up. It sounds like you might have believed a common myth that pervades some corners of YouTube and, no doubt, the Internet in general, and that is that you can become fluent in a new language in a few months, or even a few weeks. It’s not your fault if you believed this, because the people who claim to have done this can be very convincing. They will give you evidence. They will talk to you in the language. And, maybe, some of them are being truthful about their abilities, but others definitely are affiliat...

Listen on Spotify: Spotify Link Listen on YouTube: YouTube Link   Benvenuti, Bienvenue, Croeso and Welcome Hi, I’m Juliet. Join me on my language learning journey and discover my thoughts on different aspects of language learning with the A Language Learning Tale Podcast. Today, the subject is … But I Don’t Want To Right Now Or How to Motivate Yourself to Learn a Language Learning a language takes a long time. How long will depend on many things, such as: If you’ve learnt any languages before Whether the language is close to your own in how it’s constructed How much time you have to dedicate to learning There is no possible answer to the question of how long it will take for any one person, but it will take a long time. So, if that’s the case, you’re going to need to be motivated to do it. Reasons for learning a language are many and varied. For example: It might be that you need to learn a language for your work, or the job that you aspire to do. It could be that you’re in a relat...