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Personal Research: Why Do People Quit? | ||
Tags: Discouragement from learning | Burn-out | ||
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| Elizabeth_rb Diglot Groupie United Kingdom polyglotintraining.b Joined 4636 days ago 54 posts - 84 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: GermanB1 | Message 1 of 39 23 May 2012 at 2:16pm | IP Logged |
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Hi!
I'm doing some research into why people give up on learning a language and I'd be grateful for your thoughts and input - no matter how 'obvious' it might seem. Also, what are the things that people find difficult with language learning (in any situation, not just self-instruction), although the particular challenge may not cuase them to give up totally. Thanks! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Zeeluvia Diglot Newbie Indonesia Joined 4568 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: Indonesian*, English | Message 2 of 39 23 May 2012 at 3:33pm | IP Logged |
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I think people give up because they lose interest in the language.
And I personally find languages which have non-roman characters (like Korean, Japanese, Russian) are more difficult to study because you have to remember new characters and therefore double the efforts to gain proficiency in them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| verbalnerd Newbie United States Joined 4571 days ago 18 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 39 23 May 2012 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
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1. Getting interested in (a)other language(s) more.
2. Not finding the opportunity and resources to learn and practice (a bigger problem before the Internet made a lot of resources a lot more readily available). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6659 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 4 of 39 23 May 2012 at 3:48pm | IP Logged |
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Depression, change of lifestyle, change of interests, etc.
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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4639 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 5 of 39 23 May 2012 at 3:56pm | IP Logged |
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For me, the main reason for quitting has been lack of time/need to set priorities.I just had to concentrate on some languages and leave others behind, not because they did not interest me, but for practical reasons I wanted to get to a really advanced level in a few languages and dedicate my time to those.
As for difficulties, what I find most difficult right now learning Russian is to memorise vocabulary fast enough to get to a decent level. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4689 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 6 of 39 23 May 2012 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
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Personally, most of the stories I hear about people quitting have been due to lack of progress in the new language. It can take weeks (or even Months in some languages) to get beyond "Hello, my name is Bill. Where is the bathroom. How are you? Goodbye. Etc...". This can be very frustrating for someone (especially someone learning their first new language).
I also think burn-out can be a serious problem as well as that moment when someone finally realizes that learning a language is hard work with no short cuts. I think a lot of people get enamored with the thought of speaking another language (for various reasons) and don't realize how much dedication and effort it really takes. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Elizabeth_rb Diglot Groupie United Kingdom polyglotintraining.b Joined 4636 days ago 54 posts - 84 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: GermanB1 | Message 7 of 39 23 May 2012 at 4:19pm | IP Logged |
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Lack of confidence can be a problem as well. I mean, some folk simply *don't*
accept/believe that they have the ability to learn another language. It's quite staggering how powerful and debilitating that delusion can be. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4665 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 8 of 39 23 May 2012 at 4:35pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, lack of confidence can definitely be a problem. The lack of confidence can even happen in a particular area of learning the language. For example, I believe that I will eventually be able to understand pretty much all the French I read and hear, but if I try to imagine myself speaking it fluently, the idea strikes my brain as completely implausible for some reason. :-/
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