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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7196 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 25 of 28 04 March 2014 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
With the name of this thread you started, you sound determined to exercise self restraint. I'm glad you have figured out the importance of time management early in your journey. There is a lot of great information and advice here. If you can limit yourself to 5 minutes on the forum for every hour you study, you will progess very quickly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5198 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 26 of 28 06 March 2014 at 11:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I actually agree with the original sentiment, even if as emk demonstrated it's a bit hypocritical. I've been a bit of a forum addict in the past, and while it's extremely useful and I've learnt and been inspired a ton, after a certain point it can be too much and it can be a means of making yourself feel like you're doing something productive when you'd be better off spending the time actually studying languages. Recently I've started ignoring many of the General Discussion topics: questions about what fluency means or what should be a lingua franca or which languages will be important in a few decades can be interesting and make you think the first time round, but after a while you don't gain much by reading the same arguments over and over.
I've also been guilty of writing long log posts that don't serve much purpose - another thing that is very useful in moderation, just for dumping your thoughts if nothing else, but after a point is just time you could be spending using the language rather than writing about using it (of course many people are smarter than me and do both by writing some of their log posts in their target language...). So I'm writing them a bit less frequently now. All that said, many people here do seem to have the time to both contribute very regularly to the forum and make great progress in their languages, so more power to them! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4299 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 27 of 28 10 March 2014 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ironically, for me this thread and its poster´s short but spectacular posting history
have sucked up more hours than all my reading on HTLAL for the last few months combined. Also, I can always fit 3 hours into a working day by allotting one hour's listening in the morning before work and listening (actually shadowing, whether as a fake phone conversation or undisguised) as I walk to work and around the streets; making up the remainder of the 3rd hour in the evening. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4299 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French | Message 28 of 28 10 March 2014 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well... that came off boastful. I meant it as a reply to the OP's claim that "balancing
between homework, exercise, meal times, language learning, browsing the forum and learning fashion skills is a hard task." 1 person has voted this message useful |
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