motivation in language learning 🌎 | The Lang Diaries ep. 2

hi everyone !! hope the Lang diaries is so far an interesting compilation for you ?? i’m not anywhere close to a ‘language master’ so i hope i don’t come across as to confident in any way 😭 i don’t have much experience but i just made this series to document my feelings in hopes you guys resonate with them or can get insight and organise your thoughts from them too ahah
resources:
- Tanaka Radio
- YuYuの日本語Podcast
- Dashu Mandarin
- Satori reader
- channel with JLPT grammar exersices of all levels: youtube.com/@TOMOsensei?si=Sq... (TOMO sensei)
NAME: dania (nia)
FROM: 🇵🇰 (+ 🇬🇧 nationality)
RECORDED+EDITED ON: iPad Pro 11” 2018
AUDIO: iPhone XS Max
STUDYING: japanese, chinese, french+spanish (+trying to do justice to urdu)
OUTRO MUSIC: perfect night - le sserafim lofi ver
EDITED ON: VLLO
0:00 intro
00:33 update on mandarin
01:10 motivation
06:21 spanish
07:40 this year's targets
10:05 techniques/resources
12:54 outro
tags:
#2024 #japanese #chinese #mandarin #study #languages #series #video #march #spanish #french #español

[@nias_nook]

make sure to turn the quality up hehe and comment your own thoughts and things you wanna share !!

[@ThuyKieuTuyetXuan]

It’s hard to stay motivated when you’re trying to learn a new language. However, I’ve learned that by combining your entertainment time and your language learning time, this is an easy way to stay motivated as a language learner. I personally like to use Immersive Translate to generate subtitles to my KZbin and Netflix, and that’s how I’ve been learning Vietnamese, my target language. I’ve already learned a lot so far, which is really great.

[@nias_nook]

that’s great! i agree with everything you said :) good luck on your journey ! i’ll try out that subtitles technique

[@Eeveecat]

New viewer here! I love your attitude and general outlook towards language learning. I've been learning mandarin for over a year now, and I'm studying really hard to try and solidly reach HSK 4, and I just want to say! 加油！The beginning with mandarin is definitely the hardest-- once the tones stop feeling so foreign, it starts to be a lot easier to remember them and pronounce them, and once you have a bunch of radicals and characters memorized, it's a lot easier to memorize new words because they'll often reuse the same radicals or even whole characters. 谢谢你的视频，我期待你的下个！

[@nias_nook]

ah i always look up to you guys in HSK 3,4,5 haha 🙏 this is some good advice! i agree the beginning was pretty hard haha but i think i’m easing into it slowly now! i’ll try to use this advice from now on! thanks for sharing, i’ll keep this in mind, 谢谢你!

[@joreneelanguages]

Your video quality is so awesome! Just found your channel. You should totally keep dreaming to live in Japan, you never know! 😊

[@nias_nook]

ah thank you!

[@xojaci]

i love that you talked about how language learning isnt that deep 😭 its so true ?? ive been thinking of this too lately. sometimes we take it too seriously but really, we could be making it a fun and lighter process

[@nias_nook]

ah exactly! people make it a life or death situation but… it’s not meant to be like that 😭 glad u resonate with that haha 🤞

[@Pachjtene]

You're so right about the "corporate academic setting" ppl use to study languages. Maybe we are just brainwashed into thinking you need to be doing only "serious and productive" things in a "seriuos and productive" way to feel accomplished!

[@nias_nook]

for sure! it shouldn’t be something we feel burdened about