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!)
I’ve always wanted to learn Korean and I tried multiple times but never really stayed motivated enough to keep at it. How do you stay motivated?
by just doing it.
stop ‘wanting’ to do it’ and just do it.
this is the secret to most things in life.
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
Let me guess, Quebec? Your experience is the intended effect of those laws lmao.
Brussels. Officially bilingual but most people speak French; English is commonly spoken but not official. I’m also legally allowed to get things in Dutch (the other official language) but I know even less Dutch than French… I promised myself to start learning Dutch once I get to B1-B2 French
Due to historical reasons, language is… a sensitive issue here. And since I work in academia (which were at the center of said language issue), my employer communicates everything in French, despite the fact that academia itself uses English (probably funnier at the Dutch-speaking unis but I digress). For example I think half of the HR and IT teams don’t speak English at all so all my work emails to them have to be in French…
I see, the situation in montreal is fairly similar, so I assumed it was quebec, language is also a very sensitive issue here.
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.