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| Takato Tetraglot Senior Member HungaryRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5048 days ago 249 posts - 276 votes  Speaks: Hungarian*, EnglishB2, GermanB2, Japanese | Message 1 of 10 26 August 2012 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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If I find something enjoyable, I decrease the amount of time of doing it or possibly stop doing it at all. For example,
I can basically understand half of a Chinese subtitle->don't do it so often anymore, I like a series, find it real good->stop watching it (stopped watching it last year). Do you have some suggestions for me? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 10 26 August 2012 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think I understand your problem. Why do you stop doing something you find enjoyable?
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| Hekje Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4703 days ago 842 posts - 1330 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch Studies: French, Indonesian | Message 3 of 10 26 August 2012 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe you feel complacent and just need to rachet up the intensity.
For example - not sure if this is the exact same thing - I got to a point where my listening comprehension was good enough to understand virtually everything in a typical Dutch reality TV show without subtitles. Because it was now just like watching shows in my native tongue, the excitement was gone and I no longer felt motivated to make time for them. Then I browsed around a little more and realized that talk shows and comedy remained far out of my reach. Still TV, still about interesting stuff, but fairly few visual cues and much more sophisticated vocabulary. I couldn't (still can't) follow the more technical topics without subtitles, especially when the pace was fast. Discovering how far I had to go there made me excited about practicing my listening comprehension again. So maybe it's something like that. You might just be hitting that plateau. Edited by Hekje on 26 August 2012 at 9:25pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 10 26 August 2012 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes. Instead of stopping doing things you find enjoyable, keep doing them instead. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 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 5 of 10 26 August 2012 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Join the Super challenge :-)
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4844 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 6 of 10 27 August 2012 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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This is a bit speculative as I am not a doctor and this is not a health forum, but I suspect your problem might be some sign of depression. Normally, if someone likes doing something (s)he will simply go for it and do it again and again. Not wanting to do something you like, however, can (I don't say it has to) be a sign of some sort of emotional trouble. Is this phenomenon only language-related or do you have this problem in several aspects of your life? If it's only language-related, my "diagnosis" is certainly wrong and your problem might simply be motivation, but if you feel this way in other parts of your life, too, you should consider talking to someone who can help you. This can be family, friends, or a doctor. I hope I didn't go too far with this post, but I simply had to utter my suspicion. Edited by Josquin on 27 August 2012 at 12:18am 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michel1020 Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5017 days ago 365 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Dutch | Message 7 of 10 27 August 2012 at 12:22am | IP Logged | ||
Do you prefer things to be less enjoyable ? Maybe you decrease the amount of time doing things with time in all circumstances but you only notice it when those things are enjoyable. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Edudg Pentaglot Newbie Brazil Joined 4671 days ago 16 posts - 28 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Italian, English, French, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Swedish | Message 8 of 10 27 August 2012 at 3:37am | IP Logged | ||
As far as the language learning process is concerned maybe you need very demanding tasks to feel motivated. My advice is that you should look for more challenging exercices once you loose the motivation to go on with whatever you are doing. Tired of watching chinese movies? go for literature... Tired of the drills of your course book? buy a more advanced one.. When it comes to other topics though (stop watching a TV series you enjoy), even though I'm sure everyone will answer to you with the best intentions in mind, maybe this isn't the most suitable forum to post this kind of issue.. I'm afraid we'll all speculate about it but won't be able to give you any proper feedback due to the lack of knowledge of your situation/background and our (well, mine for sure) lack of expertise on the subject. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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