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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4688 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes  Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 25 of 38 11 November 2014 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | ||
THIS^! I'm also trying to get my health 100% right. I learned (and retained) languages SOOOO much better when I was feeling top notch. A healthy diet and a good exercise routine will be just what the doctor ordered! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 26 of 38 12 November 2014 at 2:57am | IP Logged | ||
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My biggest roadblock in general has been limited time lately.
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| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4612 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 27 of 38 15 November 2014 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Picking up one / Feeling overwhelmed.
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5099 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 28 of 38 16 November 2014 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Greater limits on my time and plain old motivation. Unlike my experience in French, I am
no longer enchanted by understanding a few words here than there in German. I want it all, right now and since I can't have that I find other things to do instead of studying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5532 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 29 of 38 17 November 2014 at 2:49am | IP Logged | ||
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With English: exposure. I'm getting it now since I've temporarily moved but still. My
brain doesn't always find right words. It's improving now though. With Spanish: time. I still have decent passive skills, I can read newspapers and follow general interest programmes on TV but I've lost any active speaking abilities that I had. Just don't have time to maintain it. With Russian: motivation. Sometimes I watch TV or movies but there's very little motivation for me to pursue fluency. I can manage in expressing myself, I understand like 90% of what I hear (except slang, that is whole another ballgame) but there's no incentive for improvement. I don't fret. With Finnish: motivation. At times I pick up a book or read news, watch a programme or two but other than that there's no point for pressing further. With Mandarin: characters. I need them for my exam next spring but oh how I hate them. Love them too, they're so seductive, but boy am I struggling with them! It's stupid, really, but at this point I need more reading than oral fluency. Don't really know how to approach it all. Need a reboot. Tricks that work other languages don't work for me with Mandarin. Makes me crazy mad. With French: it's overwhelming at this point since I've just started. Conjugations. Silent letters. False friends. Arrgggh! It's like they made up the language just to make fun of others. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7204 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 30 of 38 17 November 2014 at 10:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Limited brain power.
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6864 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 31 of 38 18 November 2014 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
The intermediate stage is always the hardest part of any language 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Xenops Senior Member United States thexenops.deviantart Joined 3824 days ago 112 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 32 of 38 20 November 2014 at 4:21am | IP Logged | ||
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My previous post was rather tongue-in-cheek, but now that I think about it, I have roadblocks that many would consider debilitating:
1. No high-speed Internet--for some reason, in my portion of the U.S., we either have dial-up (still) or our "high speed" is ridiculously slow. At my house I have dial-up, which limits my resources, and I have to visit the library for the "high-speed" that I before mentioned. 2. Live in mono-cultural environment--not a lot of people to practice with. Also come across the attitude of "why learn another language? Everyone speaks English!" 3. Audacity Not Working--I really wanted to clip portions from, say, Assimil, and then put them into Anki. For some reason Audacity no longer works on my computer (even my new one), and it appears that I would need to do minor programming or buy a real audio-editing program made for Macs. To solve the first two problems, the easy solution seems to be to move to a more desirable location; I would love to, if someone in desirable location would hire me. :P 1 person has voted this message useful |
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