How to Fight Language Learning Failure

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minutes okay today's topic is how to fight language learning failure you're

going to learn one why people fail at learning a language to the two questions

smart learners ask themselves so they can succeed and three proven ways to

overcome language learning failure but first listen up here are this month's

new lessons and resources first the new 400 everyday phrases for beginners ebook

you'll love this new book because you'll be able to talk about your daily life

from morning tonight you'll learn 400 practical phrases for your daily

routines like waking up getting ready for work even brushing your teeth and

getting ready for bed second do you know the 40 most common

adjectives our new useful adjectives PDF cheat sheet gives you the 40 most common

adjectives this is a great review tool for beginners third the 30 most useful

pronouns I you she he it yours you all you'll learn how to say all the

pronouns with this quick lesson fourth 20 must know phrases for the phone learn

how to say who's this what's your phone number and much more with this

one-minute lesson you'll quickly learn 20 phrases for the phone to get these

free lessons and resources just click the link in the description below okay

let's jump into today's topic

how to fight language learning failure let's jump into the first part one what

is language learning failure just to be clear failure is quitting or giving up

learning in a very slow pace taking a break

making pronunciation mistakes or failing a language test are not real failures so

don't worry real failure is when you quit completely so what causes failure

simply put weak spots and pain points what do I mean by that think about it if

you're learning a language you're probably aware of your weak spots for

example most beginners can read but can't speak well so not speaking as well

as you hoped that's a weak spot or a pain point for you

others have problems with motivation no time they don't stick with resources and

jump from one to another or maybe they have trouble sticking with goals leave a

comment right now and tell me what your weak spot is whatever it is if you don't

address it now this weak spot or pain point may become the reason you fail and

if you think about it most people quit directly because of these pain points no

time no motivation can't stick to goals not fun enough or they're just not

speaking as well as they dreamed so they quit on their dream but you're a smart

language learner so what should you do differently part two the two questions

smart learners ask themselves so they can succeed just a quick warning if

you're happy with your learning routine or if you've just started you don't have

to ask these two questions now but you will need them later here they are you

should ask one what are my weak points and two what am I going to do about them

so let's do the first one one what are my weak points and the answers to this

question are fairly common not enough time not enough motivation

can't speak the language well I can't stick to goals I can't stick to a

resource and I tend to jump around so answer this question once you've

identified your needs and problems ask yourself the second question

- what am I going to do about them pay close attention here because this

question is what separates the successful language learners from the

rest everyone knows their weak points and yes it's good to identify problems

but it's much more important to have solutions because it's one thing to spot

problems and feel smart but it's another thing to actually take action and fix

them so that's where the real smarts are how do you take action what are some

learning tactics that actually work part 3 ways to beat language learning failure

let's attack some common weak spots that cause people to fail and quit by the end

you'll start to see how to resolve common problems you'll come up with your

unique approaches and you'll get into the habit of coming up with solutions so

one common weak spot is you're low on time if you're low on time the easiest

thing you can do is learn for only 5 minutes a day set a timer listen to a

lesson and shut it off after 5 minutes this will help you get used to learning

and at some point you'll want to increase your time that's why our

lessons are 3 to 15 minutes long to make learning easy and to make it so time is

not an issue another thing you can do is learn on the go with our free app if

you're on the train at the gym or walking to a store you can transform

this dead time into learning time and learn a bit of language be sure to

download our innovative language 101 app for free on the App Store or Google Play

you're low on motivation next if you're low on motivation maybe you'd do better

with a teacher someone who will interact with you and encourage you to succeed

you can learn with one with our Premium Plus program you can't speak well if

speaking is your weak point the best thing to do here is just practice more

if you're taking our lessons read the lesson dialogue out loud reading out

loud is the quick and easy way to practice speaking on your own or write

down or memorize a lesson dialogue and practice it out loud 3 times a day for a

week you can't stick with goals if you can't stick with a 5 minute a day

routine maybe you need someone else to take

charge and teach you so you should get a teacher or join an actual language class

where you have no choice but to show up you don't know enough grammar if you

want to learn grammar take our audio lessons on the site in every lesson

you'll get a conversation afterward our teachers explain every word and grammar

rule used inside so you actually get to see how the grammar is used instead of

just reading about rules you can also use learning pathways to get courses and

lessons that are specifically dedicated to improving your grammar these are just

a few ways to address your weak spots and pain points there's a lot more we

can cover but the most important thing you need to remember is to ask yourself

what are my weak points and what am I going to do about them asking and acting

on that second question is what will put you on a track to fluency and will help

you avoid language learning failure so what are your weak points what are you

going to do about them alright everyone in the last monthly review we asked you

to submit a video or audio file of yourself speaking the language telling

us why you're learning the language so thank you to all of you that sent in

submissions you've all received a premium plus subscription as a reward

now let's take a look at some of the submissions

okay so I'm gonna have a listen to the audio files that were sent by you this

month I'm gonna start hi Alicia my name isn't good I am my arm India

I am University student I have fun learn English speaking because English is a

global language for communication home business for job I want a job in

multinational company for this I need to improve my English speaking skill and

and the English class 101 dot-com is a past community for learning English I

love learning English here they make everything easy and understandable for

everyone thank you for English 101 calm and thank you awesome that was great so

this person wants to learn English for their job opportunities to work in an

international company I think that's a really good goal to have so thank you so

much for sending this and thanks for studying with us thank you for sharing

your feedback that was great okay on to the next one what's up

everyone hi Alicia howling hi I'm going round two my name is Claudia so Melanie

from Mozambique in Africa dianna Mozambique Alicia I'm making this

because I love meeting new people in new cultures I learned a lot from the

materials on this channel and I have to say thank you very much English class

101.com Thank You Alicia and yes bye bye see you

cool that was nice that was really nice yes I do know Mozambique thank you for

talking about where you're from I'm interested in hearing where everyone's

from but that was great yeah that was really like kind of cheerful and

positive and smoothly delivered introduction thanks very much for

sending that along okay I'm going to go to the next one

hi Alicia my name's Daniel and I am from kakuzu a

city in Brazil okay I study English because there is much more information

about almost everything in English than in Portuguese for example topics like

science and engineering and because I am really curious about England and United

States history any culture I would like to thank you guys for everything you

have made available on the Internet cool that's a really interesting point

actually like wanting to study English because there's more information

available about a lot of topics in English that's a really good point so

that's very cool thanks very much for sending this and good luck with your

continued studies awesome okay so those are all the files that we have for this

month thank you everybody who took the time to send us something we really

appreciate it I look forward to more next month

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