See title. I’ve been to quite a few local language meetups and saw lots of people IRL who are learning languages: wondering how are y’all doing too

For myself… learning French due to necessity. I am making progress, just veeery slow. I underestimated how difficult it would be (a lot of vocabs between English/French are similar… but the languages themselves are not!)

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      4 months ago

      I… don’t think I need motivation when my employer, my landlord, and even my government are legally obligated to establish all legal communications in French (facepalm)

      I also suffered from motivation before moving here though, so I’d love to know as well

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      4 months ago

      What made you want to learn Korean in the first place? Try to think about what you could do if you knew it, and set up goals that you want to reach.

      I realized when I was young that I’d like to learn Japanese. But I put off serious learning for so many years (decades, tbh), and now I think a lot about how I could already be using it for all sorts of day to day (web browsing and entertainment) tasks if I had focused sooner. You learn a language, you can learn or do your other hobbies/interests in that language.

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      by just doing it.

      stop ‘wanting’ to do it’ and just do it.

      this is the secret to most things in life.