It can be difficult keeping up the motivation to learn languages, because anything worth doing takes time, and languages are no different. This tweet appeared on my twitter feed a while ago… I guess I lost my motivation to learn languages. 😥 I mean I thought I was taking a
Hey y’all 🙂 (Putting on my Southern twang there 🙂 )… just thought I had better let you know how the 21 Day Vocab Challenge went, and bring you all up to date with it. So the commitment was only five minutes a day – Did I manage to stick to
Oops! It’s a bit unplanned, but I saw something advertised I just could not pass over… the opportunity to study one language for one weekend… and I don’t even get to choose the language! Language Jam is a weekend long challenge organised by Language and Travel Blogger Lingudendron. It was
Do you find yourself getting into a rut with your language learning? Does your “get up and go” seem to… well… get up and go? I have been at that point for the past three months with French. I completed the 33rd Add 1 Challenge, all fired up ready to
As I mentioned a while ago, one of the assignments in the current Add1Challenge (#A1C33) we were asked to write down or make a reminder in some way for why we wanted to learn this language. This is a really good idea for all language learners – even if we
Ever since the movie “The Bucket List” came out back in 2007, the concept of the Bucket List has well and truly embedded itself in the English-speaking world as a “thing” 🙂 It may have been around in the USA before this (and I assume it was), but in Australia
For our second assignment in the current Add1Challenge (#A1C33) we were asked to write down or make a reminder in some way for why we wanted to learn this language. For me the impetus to study French in particular was a combination of a few factors. Firstly, because I had
Have you ever had one of those weeks where every little bit of motivation you have for learning your language just seems to drain out your toes? I had one of those weeks last week. And while I didn’t write about it in that second (because, let’s face it –
Within the Add1Challenge there are a variety of assignments and challenges set for us. This week Assignment 2 addresses motivation – remember why we started the challenge, and find some creative way to keep that reason in front of us as we study; and secondly, to consider the first two
