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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6666 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 1 of 10 14 November 2014 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have noticed lately every time I pick up a resource in any language within 30 seconds I
feel bored. I don't know why. Any advice on how to overcome periods of lethargy? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5333 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 10 14 November 2014 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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What kind of resources are you picking up? Grammars? Courses? Native materials? Is this more about a specific kind of resource that's not working for you, or does everything seem like too much effort?
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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4508 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 3 of 10 14 November 2014 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Only pick up something you want to do. If you don't want to do it, there's no point
really. Edited by tarvos on 14 November 2014 at 8:11pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 5906 days ago 707 posts - 1219 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 4 of 10 14 November 2014 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Try finding ways of rewarding yourself as an incentive.
I'm doing a 3000 piece jigsaw puzzle of Malbork Castle. For every hour of study, I reward myself with adding 1 piece of the puzzle. I've been doing this for a long time, and the satisfaction of seeing the puzzle take shape has kept me going. Rather than reward yourself for hours studied, it could be the number of books/pages read for example. And the reward can be anything. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5361 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 5 of 10 14 November 2014 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Put the resources on the floor, and turn the pages with a long pointy stick.
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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6666 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 6 of 10 14 November 2014 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
To be honest everything. It might be because of some wanderlust where I can't decide which one to study 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5862 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 7 of 10 15 November 2014 at 2:45am | IP Logged | ||
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To be frank, unless you have a big basic need to learn a language, you are bound to go through these phases.
If you are learning as a hobby, I suggest you give it a rest. For a while, I was lucky enough to be interested in just one language at a time: for a few weeks, it would be Arabic, then German, etc. Then it all became boring at once. One thing I do is to read a book or see a film (not in my target languages) that may bring back the reasons why I wanted to learn these languages in the first place. You could for instance (I'm in the dark about your tastes) see The Saragossa Manuscript, or read The Count of Monte Cristo. Or you could just take a break for a while. :) In my experience, trying new techniques generally only worsens the problem, giving you that desert-crossing feeling. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5109 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 8 of 10 15 November 2014 at 3:31am | IP Logged | ||
Are you a beginner, and feel very far away from your goal, or are you advanced, and not seeing significant progress? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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