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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5947 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 2 10 December 2014 at 5:16pm | IP Logged |
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Here’s are some useful tips for improving and keeping motivated about language learning.
- Focus on getting better and not at being good. It can be disheartening when you don’t reach the level you expected, or the task to learn a language seems so long. Instead think how much you have improved since the start, and just focus on improving your current ability. - Prevention focus. Imagine what difficulties or distractions might occur, and how you’ll get around them. This is better than positive thinking as your acknowledging everything mightn’t go smoothly. - If-Then Plans. Supposedly are brains are designed to respond to If-Then triggers. E.g. When I sit down for breakfast, I’ll open a language book. Done regularly this will become a habit that’s hard to break. - Start now not later. If you’re thinking of learning another language, start doing it now rather than later. Instead of trying to doing large amounts in a brand new language, start off with small amounts but on a regular basis. You can leave the large volume study for your stronger languages. Most of these tips I’ve gathered from various works by Heidi Grant Halvorson. A sample of some of these points, and others can be seen here. Nine Things Successful People Do Differently Edited by DaraghM on 10 December 2014 at 5:19pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Lemberg1963 Bilingual Diglot Groupie United States zamishka.blogspot.coRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4035 days ago 41 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Ukrainian* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Polish | Message 2 of 2 12 December 2014 at 12:53am | IP Logged |
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The learning mindset (#5 on the list) is what I've found to be the most effective for me.
Carol Dweck has a lot of good research on this. It shifts the focus from "I will be fluent in 1 year" to the immediate "I will be more fluent after I learn 5 words right now". This is important because research shows that the value-action gap shrinks when the rewards are more immediate aka we're more motivated to act when we perceive that we'll get the reward quickly. 7 persons have voted this message useful |
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