How to Avoid Giving Up in Language Learning 

Yeah, so true. Sometimes I look back at my old notebook and think: 'Wow, did I really have to write that down? But that's so easy! That kind of sentences feel like my mother tongue now'.

I do the same❤

Same

fr haha

He’s not nowhere fluent though so you can’t really say you “speak a language” if you’re not fluent. But he does have a good level

Are u so? The Polyglot?

hahahahahahahah

He has a very profound expertise

He's not an expert, he's a practitioner. He's not an expert in linguistics or language acquisition.

@@muhilan8540 "expert - a person who is very knowledgeable about or skilful in a particular area." "practitioner - a person actively engaged in an art, discipline, or profession, especially medicine." (and google images only shows people wearing scrubs and stuff)

Thank you for this! I am learning Spanish and have my ebbs and flows of getting discouraged. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be able to speak Spanish! I realize I am learning more and more and I am proud of myself for sticking with it.

@@mchammer7870 hello Megan. I'm happy to hear you are sticking in " there " wherever " there " might be ! It was a shock to me to see that I wrote that two years ago. For the record I'm still chugging away at spanish but now have italian and portuguese in tow. Que tengas un buen viaje !!

Yup 😅

Exactly

Good luck with eng. Cheer from Ukraine

Se disse: you are. Mas boa sorte em aprendendo Inglês, sera muito facil pra você..

If you really like Portuguese, you better get going cause time flies like an arrow! Greetings from Brazil!

Boa sorte!

Você vai chegar lá, amigo. Não desista

Keep going. I'm learning portuguese too. Maybe we can help each other. Take a look at some youtube channels: Easy Brazilian portuguese and Aconteceu mesmo. They are very useful. There's text below every video of 'Aconteceu mesmo' And there's this Brazilian polyglot who doesn't speak too fast. I don't remember his name. But you'll find him.

Анна, язык это как океан, дна нет почти, или глубокий так, что кажется никогда не достигнешь даже средины,а не то, что дна. Вот например я, владею великим могучим русским языком почти на уровне носителя, имею больше словарного запаса, чем среднестатистический носитель русского языка. ( среднестатистический носитель русского языка знает от 20 до 30.000 слов. Я давно перевалил отметку 40.000) Но, все равно ощущаю острую жажду по отношению к Ру.Яз. На данный момент тоже самое и к Английскому. Я лингвист и в общей сложности хоть и знаю 13 языков, но все равно такое ощущение, что я ничего не знаю. И как раз таки именно данное ощущение является движущей силой приобретения ин.яз.

Hey, don't give up! :)

Boa sorte with your English! I don't speak Portuguese but I can understand what you are saying with my Spanish!

Eu gosto de aprender português com comédia do Brasil é muito bom para verbos

@liammcaulay, sim, ajuda muito no aprendizado.

Anong kaya mo magsalita sa Tagalog? Pinoy ako. Props for learning the language. What's the reason for learning it? When people think of learning an Asian language, it's kind of frustrating all they think about is East Asian ones, especially Japanese and believe no other language or culture matters.

@ロマン Has it not occurred to you that many, many people here learn Japanese? Here's the thing, I'm not saying it's a bad language to learn. I learned it. Other people here also learn Chinese and/or Korean. All 3 of these are East Asian and frankly they're the most talked about Asian languages here in the comments, but if you think Asia = Japan or East Asia, or moreover, if you think that Japanese is the only Asian language worth learning, than you're just another one of those closed-minded Japanophiles and have nothing more to say to someone like this after this comment. Take our friend who posted the comment above, they're learning Japanese AND another Asian language. My language, which besides other ones, many people here don't bother learning, and the reason why you didn't understand what I said above in response. Let's take a step back, the reason why someone pursues a language is because of motivation that comes from somewhere. Why does someone choose to learn Japanese instead of, for example, Burmese? If I think about what other people may say in response, that's what's bothersome. The reason probably has to do with Japanese culture as it somehow casts a shadow over every other culture and language. The problem is many people seem learn Japanese without even trying other languages which in turn seems unfair coming from a language learner and are are too blind to see Asia is much larger than 3 countries. Conclusion, learn Japanese if you want, but why not give another Asian language a try? Just like our friend here learning Tagalog because, unlike many people, this person decided to explore another part of Asia. If this hasn't influenced you at all then dapat kumain ka ng tae. That is all.

My experience exactly.

@@michaelrespicio5683 Arabic is an Asian language that has a decent amount of people learning it.

Have faith in your brain. Give it some years before you give up. Giving up is a losers strategy.

Gus Evening damn sorry to hear that And I was thing about getting lingq

Omar Smith I thought LingQ was very helpful. Probably one of the most useful resources that I used. Maybe give it a try, it may work well for you.

The important thing is to look at what we have achieved, at least from time to time, rather than focusing on where we would like to be better. It is also important to vary things and to find content that is both interesting and accessible. In that regard we don't have as much as we would like in Greek. We do have a Greek member , and one of my viewers here, Juan Spada, who is looking into creating some content along the lines of The Iranians. you can always come back to your Greek. Nothing is lost.

Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Thanks Steve.

Gus Evening I will now thank you bredda

more input

Definitely.

@@Thelinguist appreciated, will look out for that.

Many of us have languages on the back burner. They can be revived when needed.

Stick with it, José - it’s a beautiful tongue and well rewards it’s study. I have sadly lost much of mine but I learned it in my youth when I had a Welsh girl in my life (motivation is key :)).

Uri Balsam why wouldn’t he?