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What motivation techniques do you use?
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comeauch
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16 January 2011 at 6:44am | IP Logged

I've got to agree on that. Wende Snijders and an attractive Dutch-speaking friend of mine turned out to be huge motivational factors for Dutch :)
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polyglHot
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16 January 2011 at 3:35pm | IP Logged

My biggest motivation is that I will one day be able to communicate with my boyfriend
sans Google Translate and endless games of charades!
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songlines
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17 January 2011 at 4:49pm | IP Logged

evandempsey wrote:

The three books that taught them to me or helped me to come up with them are "Feeling Good" by David Burns, "The Now Habit", by Neil Fiore, and "The Pomodoro Technique" by Francesco Cirillo. I would recommend anybody to check them out.

A very useful thread - thanks, all! - and interesting post, Evandempsey. As a language-learning bonus, Cirillo offers free legal PDF downloads of his book in English, Chinese and Italian: Pomodoro Technique PDFs The Chinese and Italian are not currently my target languages, but perhaps others might find these handy as trilingual parallel texts...!
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William Camden
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22 January 2011 at 1:04pm | IP Logged

To keep my motivation, I find it best to use a variety of methods. The deadliest enemy of learning is boredom, and variety is the best way to combat boredom.
So sometimes I will use flashcards, sometimes Iversen-type word lists, sometimes vocabulary notebooks. I also search for Youtubes or audio in the desired L2, or just read the Internet in it. None of these methods are miracle solutions, but all and others I have not mentioned have a place.

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