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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4405 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 17 of 27 03 June 2014 at 3:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I often tend to take the path of least resistance: doing the things that are easy rather
than those that lead to real progress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4239 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 18 of 27 03 June 2014 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | ||
On the other hand, doing things the hard way doesn't necessarily lead to the best results. As an example: polyglot Moses McCormick in the US once noticed a man who studied Japanese for a few years in class and not making progress in his conversation. Many language classes focus on grammar and vocabulary. You can be studying for a few years and not feel confident conducting yourself in a social setting. About 8 months ago I started focusing on Mandarin. I practically cut my English TV & radio programming down to just the news. Watching TV in a target language everyday is time consuming but at the same time enjoyable so you don't really notice the effort you put into it. Every time I come across a word / phrase I'd put it on my vocabulary list. In the beginning you are going to be adding a lot more words to your list. As time goes by you will find in a given TV program you have just 1 or 2 words to add. Edited by shk00design on 03 June 2014 at 6:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 3842 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 19 of 27 03 June 2014 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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The biggest thing I struggle with is containing myself.
I tend to work a lot to reach unrealistic goals. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JamesS Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 4010 days ago 20 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Indonesian Studies: Javanese, German, Mandarin | Message 20 of 27 04 June 2014 at 5:00am | IP Logged | ||
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+1 for time to study. Now that I have a full time job I really regret flitting away so much time when I was a
student. I guess it's true what they say - you don't appreciate what you have until it's gone! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gollum87 Diglot Newbie Yugoslavia Joined 3732 days ago 31 posts - 46 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 21 of 27 04 June 2014 at 7:46am | IP Logged | ||
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The same thing happened to me as well.. Now I am focused on learning Italian, and I have little time for it, because I work and I live on my own so I don't have much time to focus on it...
But when I was student and when I was searching for a job, I had the whole day of free time, and I was so lazy... So it is true.. We (or at least, most of us) don't appreciate what we have.. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5719 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 22 of 27 05 June 2014 at 3:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I struggle most with lack of balance in my studying, sometimes I just listen to music and neglect other things such as reading, writing or speaking. Edited by mick33 on 05 June 2014 at 8:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| samfrances Groupie United Kingdom Joined 3847 days ago 81 posts - 110 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 23 of 27 05 June 2014 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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1. Listening comprehension at full speed.
2. Vocabulary - my memory isn't that good, but discovering Anki has been a great help. 3. Conjugating verbs correctly in conversation. So many times someone points out a mistake to me, and I instantly think "of course!". I knew intellectually what the right verb form was, but I said the infinitive or just parroted back the form the speaker used e.g. "¿hablas español?", "Si, hablas un poco". Idiom is hard too, but these other problems are far more fundamental for me at this stage. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4804 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 24 of 27 05 June 2014 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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TIIIIIIIME!!!!!!!
sorry, I just wanted to make it obvious. I am in the middle of exams but I am leaving for spain in three weeks or so. I should be working on my Spanish but I have quite no time :- ( I hate school. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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