How to create your LANGUAGE LEARNING PLAN to master English

in today's video I'm going to share a few tips on  how to manage your time for language learning and  

create an effective plan to learn English I will  also show you how to plan your week effectively  

stay motivated by writing your why and adjust your  routine to keep making progress the first step of  

creating a language plan is time management at  least this is something that I do and something  

that I benefit from a lot in this step I want you  guys to think how much time can you realistically  

dedicate to language learning every single week  because at the beginning we always say yeah I'm  

going to study the language every single day for  2 hours and I'm going to learn this language so  

freaking fast but then when it actually comes  to it you skip a day you skip two days and then  

before you know it it's been like a month and you  haven't practiced this language at all so I know  

we're all busy right so in this step the trick  is not about having more time right we only have  

24 hours every single day it's about making more  time and prioritizing things because when we say  

that we're too busy it's just an excuse that  we give ourselves and it means that language  

learning is not that high on our priority list  right if your friend comes up to you and says  

oh do you want to hang out next week and if all  you say is I'm too busy like your friend is not  

going to feel great and think about language  learning as your friend especially if learning  

a new language is very important to you if it  was really important you'd find the the time  

to do it so coming back to the question I asked  how many hours can I realistically dedicate to  

language learning every single week I usually  actually make this number a lot less let's say  

for the beginning I say that you know every  single week I have eight hours to study the  

language I usually then choose the number that  is significantly lower let's say five because  

again a lot of people set unrealistic goals and  never achieved them I'm going to feel a lot better  

if I set a goal of practicing the language for you  know 5 hours every single week and I'm going to  

achieve this goal like this you know every single  week then if I set a goal of practicing a language  

for 8 hours and I never achiev this goal and I  personally think that in order to maintain this  

longevity of your love for language learning you  really have to make sure it fits into your life it  

fits into your schedule in a nice way that it Mak  makes you feel good that it doesn't make you feel  

like oh my God it's another thing I have to do and  I freaking hate it and another thing that I want  

to add here is that you don't necessarily have  to have this exact number for every single week  

maybe it's going to be a range you know you want  to practice the language 5 to eight hours every  

single week it depends maybe sometimes you're  less busy you have more free time to dedicate  

to language learning moving on to the second step  of creating a language learning plan active and  

passive learning I always try to include active  and passive learning into my routine I think for  

a lot of people it's a lot easier to include  passive learning right when you're watching  

a YouTube video or listening to a podcast or an  Audi book because usually we can stack this habit  

with something that we do every single day let's  say you cook and listen to a podcast in English  

but when it comes to active learning a lot of  people here struggle because it does require your  

undivided attention but I also think how you break  up this active and passive learning really depends  

on your language level and how much you want to  increase your level because right now in English I  

think I only practice passive learning pretty much  like I don't take English classes I don't analyze  

my grammar and stuff like that no I just listen to  a lot of things I watch a lot of things in English  

but in Spanish I know that this strategy will just  not work for me because my Spanish level is lower  

so for Spanish I have to dedicate a few hours  to Active Learning so if you spend 5 hours every  

single week learning English you can create this  table where you write that you want to dedicate 2  

hours to passive English learning and 3 hours to  active English learning every single week moving  

on to the third step which is adding an anchor a  lot of different people call this Parts in a lot  

of different ways but let's call it an anchor it's  basically something that you will do every single  

week and you're 100% sure that you will be able to  do this activity for example take a language class  

and practice with a teacher I have this anchor  for Spanish right now and I started having it from  

the very beginning of my Spanish Learning Journey  because at the beginning I don't know why when I  

am a complete beginner it's always hard for me to  find motivation because there are so many things I  

don't know and every single time I open a textbook  you know there's a new word that I need to learn  

a new grammar rule Everything feels so new and it  makes me a little bit anxious so when I added this  

anchor of every single week I had a language class  with a teacher it helped me find that consistency  

that I sometimes lacked and if you're curious  where I take my group classes the platform is  

lingoda and I started taking lessons there three  years ago long before we started working together  

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this anchor into my language learning routine and  make sure I study the language every single week  

I love how intuitive their website is how easy  it is for me to choose a class book it and then  

prepare for it with their self-study materials  the group classes themselves are led by native  

speaking teachers and over the years of using  lingoda I got to speak to people from Spain  

Mexico Argentina Colombia when I two classes to  learn Spanish and from Great Britain Australia  

and the United States for English and don't worry  guys you will have a lot of time to speak because  

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next step which is creating your weekly planner  so now you know how many hours you can dedicate  

to language learning every single week you have  your active and passive learning hours and I  

think it's time to create your weekly planner  and I think now is the time to plan all the  

tasks for the week this weekly planner that you  can see on the screen is from my notion template  

for language Learners and this is usually how I  plan my language learning I know that my busiest  

work days are usually Monday and Tuesday so I  give myself some Grace and I don't push myself  

to study the language for like 3 hours on Monday  and 3 hours on Tuesday no I plan everything off  

of my work off spending time with my friends and  family and only after that I fit in my language  

learning this next step of your language learning  plan I decided to call it write your why because  

uh it's completely normal to lack motivation  sometimes and feel like there's no reason for  

you to study this language and you don't even  know why you decided to study it in the first  

place so that's why just having your why written  somewhere maybe it's on notion maybe it's in your  

Journal will help you a lot during the times  when you lack motivation when you feel too  

tired when you feel like you're not progressing  at all because when you write down your why why  

you're learning this language it suddenly becomes  much more real for example I want to learn English  

because I want to become fluent it's not a great  goal on its own I mean it just sounds very vague  

what exactly does fluent mean if your answer is  really vague you need to ask why again and again  

and again until you reach the answer that you know  will make the spark alive for you and I have this  

why for Spanish and I think right now I probably  don't need this why for English because English  

is like such a big part of my life now but with  Spanish I still do need the swp because sometimes  

I lose motivation sometimes I feel exhausted and  when I open my journal and I read my why I don't  

know I just I just get motivated again because my  why for me is extremely powerful and finally once  

you have your routine your plan you have to be  ready to adjust it I know you spend so much time  

creating this routine planning everything but  you know sometimes plans change sometimes you  

have to rearrange your weekly tasks just because  of work or family or kids or maybe you just lost  

interest in this specific activity and you want  to try something new so these are three questions  

that are nice to ask yourself what is not working  in your language learning right now stop it if  

you think it's not working for you stop doing  it what is working because we don't only want  

to focus on the negative what are the things that  you implemented that are working for you amazingly  

right now continue them and what would you like to  try maybe it's something new maybe you've heard of  

this new method maybe you watched a YouTube video  and the person there recommended something in your  

platform a your app so start it this framework  of stop continuous start is something that will  

help you adjust your routine because your routine  doesn't have to stay the same it doesn't have to  

be rigid because usually that's something that  makes us very bored very quickly so having this  

flexibility always asking yourself are you happy  with your language learning right now what would  

you like to change what is working for you what  would you like to try is a great thing to have in  

your language plan so I think it's going to be  it for this video if you liked it don't forget  

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