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| chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 5180 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish | Message 17 of 19 12 December 2013 at 3:50am | IP Logged | ||
If you don't have any self-discipline, get somebody else to apply the discipline. Now, before you start hiring someone to stand there with a baseball bat and break your kneecaps if you stop learning, what I'm actually referring to is a study buddy. Yes, a real person - this method works. A class with homework assignments, or an attractive member of the opposite sex who speaks or learns that language, could also be good motivators. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4225 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 18 of 19 12 December 2013 at 5:43am | IP Logged | ||
Well, I have the same problem with self-discipline and I doubt that it'll be easy for you to find enough motivation. Soon you'll be thinking that there's no guarantee and probably give up. I know it myself very well. I was relatively good at school English, but my strongest skill was Eng-Rus translation. I wasn't thinking in language though my level was somewhere around our even above A2. I see now that if you like the language you naturally start to think in it regardless of level you have. It may be nothing serious, it may be full of various mistakes, but these are your thoughts in a foreign language. I had no improvement in English until I really started to like it (thanks to music). I wouldn't say that it's impossible to learn a language if you don't like it, but it's certainly very hard. Edited by Via Diva on 12 December 2013 at 5:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 19 of 19 12 December 2013 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Self-discipline can be replaced with passion.
Via Diva, in my opinion thinking in the language depends on your methods and not your liking of it. Many people can't think in their L2 despite loving it, just because they're too used to translating. But I agree that it's very hard to learn a language you don't like. It's time-consuming enough to learn what you do like, after all! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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