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I changed my handwriting again, who knows if I’ll stick with it, I like it at the moment though.

those are great goals! i’ve been wanting to learn a language for a long time, but haven’t been able to commit to it yet. so much respect for the people who can! 

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Hey everyone! I thought I’d make this post because I see a lot of people on here who really want to learn a new language (or multiple languages) but they don’t know where to start. Some people say that you shouldn’t study more than one language at a time but for me, I think it’s actually better to study multiple languages as it saves you from feeling unmotivated or bored and therefore giving up.

I learnt German for 3 years in school, I gave it up when I started my options and I picked it up again recently. I have been learning Spanish for around six months but not very consistently and then I picked up Korean around the middle of December and I have actually stuck to it pretty consistently.

At the start of this year I decided that I really wanted to learn these languages and put more effort into studying them. These tips have really helped me, I hope they can help you too!

Set goals

My first tip is to set goals. I find this really helpful when I am starting to feel unmotivated or unenthusiastic as it reminds me why I want to learn these languages. Your goals don’t have to be big things like ‘I want to live in (whatever country) when I am fluent’, I think goals should be smaller, more achievable things.

My goals are quite small, they probably seem silly but I know that they are things that I can achieve. For example, my goal for learning Korean is to one day be able to write a whole page in Korean. The thing that drew me to learning Korean is the alphabet, it looks so pretty to me and I just love the way it looks handwritten. Although this seems like a really small, silly goal, it is important to me because it reminds me of what drew me to the language in the first place!

Have a routine

Setting a routine/goal for language learning every day is really important. Learning a language can be really overwhelming so setting goals will help you to stay motivated! Plan how much time you want to spend on each language and stick to your plan. It’s harder than it sounds but you will start to get used to it and create a habit!

Choose languages from the same family

This can help because you can start to associate some words from one language with another, meaning that you are recalling some of the words whilst learning others.

However, I wouldn’t recommend this tip if you are prone to mixing languages or getting confused.

Prioritise

By this, I mean, you need to choose which language you want to put more time into. For me, it’s Korean because I know that it is the least similar to my native language so it should be the most difficult to learn.

I’d suggest prioritising either the language that you find the most interesting or the one that you know will be the most work.

Differentiate

My last tip is differentiation. Study the languages differently. If you’ve just spent an hour learning German words through flashcards, perhaps you should use another technique to learn a bunch of words in Spanish. You could try:

- Including the words in a sentence or paragraph to give them context

- Some form of memory game

- Word association

It all depends on what works for you, but it’s important to have some kind of difference between how you learn the languages - you don’t have to have different techniques for each language, I just mean that you should break up long hours of studying with different techniques, especially when you switch to a new language.

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