4 Ways To Stay Motivated When Learning | English October Review

do you have trouble staying motivated to learn English you're not alone in this

video I'll show you some powerful ways to improve your motivation hey guys

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okay the topic for today is four ways to stay motivated when learning a language

do you have trouble staying motivated has it ever been an issue for you let us

know in the comments today you'll discover four powerful tactics for

maintaining motivation and I'll show you how to apply them to our learning

program okay so some time ago you made the decision to learn a new language

then you took the first step you started which is super important but you also

need to keep going for that you need motivation so how do you stay motivated

or regain motivation if you've lost it here are four simple ways to stay

motivated and keep going number one find a way to enjoy learning number two see

your progress number three have something to lose number four do it

regardless of how you feel let's start with the first one number

one find a way to enjoy learning if you want to reach a goal or learn a language

you need to ask yourself some questions how are you going to do it is it through

a your desire to reach this goal or be the actual learning process you can want

and think and dream about the goal all you want but it's the process the

learning not the wanting that actually gets you there so you have to enjoy the

process how well what interests you what's your passion are you into sports

TV shows music watching YouTube traveling whatever it

is take your interests and base your language learning on that take lessons

based on the topics you love you already have an emotional connection to your

interests right this makes learning much more enjoyable and keeps you motivated

with our learning program you get free vocabulary and phrases on all sorts of

topics for example if you're into travel you can instantly get a bunch of

vocabulary and phrase list that you can learn with or you can search through our

lesson library to find audio and video lessons focused on travel you can use

these to master entire conversations based on your interest or passion

imagine being able to talk about your passion in your target language or

talking to native speakers that share your passion how fun would that be all

right next up number two senior progress this is the next best way to stay

motivated imagine going to the gym for a few weeks and finally starting to see

some muscle in the mirror seeing results is pretty motivating it feels good to

see progress it's fun so how do you apply that to language learning you

can't really see language muscles but there are a few things you can do first

if you're learning with your own tutor or even with our Premium Plus teacher

you can ask them to give you feedback after every lesson imagine hearing you

did great here your pronunciation was perfect you're close to mastering verb

conjugation you just need to practice more this kind of feedback is very

motivating to hear if someone told you that you had improved wouldn't you be

excited second you can track your progress with

our dashboard on the site so when you finish a lesson the dashboard tracks

that and shows you how far you've come hours studied lessons completed and how

close you are to finishing a learning pathway if you see that you've finished

30 lessons and have put in fifteen hours you'll realize that you can easily do

another 30 and that you want to put in more time and the more time you put into

language learning the better you get third come back and review a lesson

you've done for see how much you understand the

second or third time around when you realize that you can understand more

than before it feels good it's a sign that you know more words more grammar

rules and that you've made progress number three have something to lose this

is a little unusual but it works a great way to motivate yourself is to try not

to lose something in psychology it's called loss aversion studies show we

feel more upset about losing ten dollars than we feel happy about finding ten

dollars now how do you apply this to language use loss aversion as motivation

invest in a language learning textbook or a learning program by an app if you

have a basic premium or Premium Plus subscription then you're already putting

this tactic to use the point is because you don't want to waste your investment

you'll value and use the resource a lot more it's hard to assign value to free

stuff but if you work hard to save up money for something and you finally get

it you'll value it more right number four do it regardless of how you feel

this tactic might help you make the most language-learning progress of all in

reality you'll feel tired some days some days your mind will be elsewhere and you

won't want to learn and some days life will happen things will pop up school

work tests birthdays you might get sick but do it anyway

learn language anyway do one audio lesson a day to keep it easy review the

word of the day email which we send out daily this takes only a minute just put

in the time even if it's a few minutes as long as you keep going and maintain

the habit you're better off in the long run so take these tactics and apply them

to your lessons apply just one stick with it and you'll notice a change in

your motivation now speaking of lessons and resources

here are the new lessons and resources for this month

first the how to count to 1 billion PDF eBook this will help you master numbers

in your target language if you can't count from 1 to 10 or 100 yet you'll

learn how and yes you can go up to 1 billion next the talking online cheat

sheet if you want to learn online slang then you'll love this PDF cheat sheet

you'll also find plenty of Internet related words and phrases inside and

finally the 25 most commonly used verbs if you're a beginner and you don't know

the most common verbs this free mini lesson is perfect for you

you can drill all of the words with the audio slideshow until they're stuck in

your brain to get these free lessons and resources go to English class 101.com

slash free alright guys in the last episode of English monthly review we

asked you all to submit a video or audio recording of yourself speaking the

language introducing yourself in the language so thank you to everyone that

sent in a submission you've all gotten a Premium Plus subscription as a reward

now let's take a look at some of the videos hi my name is Emma I live in an

office with you and I have been trying to learn English for so many years and I

never called to myself trying to speak English but a few years ago I have seen

some videos to an English class for a while and I saw about the challenge so

when I saw that I talked with me so let's do it

let's try and see what's happening so already I am trying to speak English and

I wanna thank you guys for your battery and thank you for all answers in all the

years on English class 101 they are so helpful so thank you again and see you

later hey everyone it's me bahar from

Azerbaijan I'm living in as a region in Gabon and I'm a student

I'm studying at the University of language in Baku I'm 20 years old I've

been watching your videos about I think two years and I've learned a lot of

things from your videos from your I can say host Alisha because he's a

motivational speech but a rational smile make me always believe myself and by

this way I am learning a lot of things when I when I write a comment you

answered yes when I asked something you answered yes when I have in troubles

when I went something stuck on my head you always try to help me thank you for

this Thank You Alisha thank you for kindness I love everyone I

like English class 101 duck hunting Thank You hi Alicia this is stuff from

Gidget but it's not a very far from a flung area of Pakistan hope you will be

enjoying your life and this message finds you in the best of your health and

separate eye I think urine have heard the name of Pakistan but you might have

heard the name of k2 the second-highest warm weren't a world and mountain so I

belong to the land of k2 so which entry did you like the best leave a comment

below or do you think you can do better here's the next challenge for you yes

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