5 Ways to Stay Motivated

[@Thelinguist]

The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3NX0SoU My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com What motivates you to learn languages?

[@kengilmore2563]

Mountains have a lot of motivated people dead on them.

[@Mamoona-fw8ty]

no doubt​@@kengilmore2563

[@edmundjacobs4513]

Number 6 trigger : watching Steve Kauffman videos.

[@mxarturo]

I agree

[@isaiasbraga2330]

I Agree Also

[@xavierpaquin]

Yes!

[@kathleenkrause4800]

For sure

[@ivanisra]

True

[@huizilopoxtli9701]

I want to read nonfiction histories and biographies in French and German. My current method is to spend an hour reading French on one day, German the next day, and continue alternating. I'm reading mostly online news articles on a variety of topics in order to broaden my grasp of vocabulary. I hope eventually to be able to read books in French and German, and Spanish as well. Thank you for the videos, they inspire me to never surrender.

[@J_man247]

I’m doing a similar practice with Cyrillic languages. What I found to help in earlier stages, is it more meaningful to spend any amount of time understanding a confusing rule in a language, then a select amount of time continuously translating of words and phrases that I ultimately spend more time reviewing and going back. But yes, structure is important

[@haromy9229]

First time I visit this video this morning just 5 minutes ago ,I watched and felt his video so great ,I will following your page ,I appreciate what you doing for anyone,who wants to learn a second language,thank you very much ❤

[@RM-jb2bv]

This video made me realize I could probably benefit from a change of attitude. Steve’s description of all those levels of progress is very accurate l, except that in my experience, every time I hit a milestone, it becomes a plateau. And frustration sets in. It’s like each time I level up, I realize how little I actually know and how much more complicated I thought this would be. There is probably a word for this bc I have heard some people apply this same thinking to scientific discovery. Wherein each major breakthrough just introduces more complexity rather than solving the problem.

[@e-genieclimatique]

in brief: The video discusses the crucial role of motivation in language learning and identifies five triggers of motivation: curiosity, connection, obligation, success, and context. These triggers vary in their impact at different stages of the language learning journey, i.e., getting started, intermediate, and advanced or "airborne." 1. Getting Started: The speaker highlights curiosity about a new culture or language, personal connections to the language (e.g., family members, friends), obligation (such as work or school requirements), a sense of early success (like understanding basic phrases), and context (traveling to a country where the language is spoken) as potential motivators. 2. Intermediate Stage: The speaker explains that the initial triggers can evolve and strengthen. Curiosity may deepen with increased language exposure, connections may strengthen as communication improves, obligations can increase (like deciding to work abroad or take a language proficiency test), success moments can further boost motivation (understanding a movie, having a fluent conversation), and the context becomes richer (discovering new content like KZbin videos, Netflix series, or books in the target language). 3. Airborne Stage: The speaker points out that curiosity can continue to grow without limit, connections can multiply, and obligations can change into a perfectionist urge to master the language. At this stage, learners may experience a sense of success as they begin to think and respond directly in the language without translating. The language context becomes so embedded in their minds that they can respond almost automatically. The speaker emphasizes the importance of staying open to these motivational triggers throughout the language learning journey to achieve a desired level of fluency, typically B2 level or a comfortable fluency level.

[@rosamundg.]

Your precis of the video is much appreciated. Thank you @e-genieclimatique💚

[@deutsch.direkt]

For me, it's all about experiencing moments of success, combined with personal growth and cognitive development. It's similar to practicing a musical instrument. But most importantly, you have to do it for the love of it. If you're not enjoying the process, revise your methods and goals. Thanks for sharing these tips!

[@賴文茹-y1w]

5 triggers to motivation: Courisity/ obligations/ a sense of success with language/ Connections/ language context

[@lesterfernandez3716]

For me you are a great teacher, Steve !

[@RomanoSica-m6z]

Cool 👍🏼👍🏼 thanks mate

[@joebuckaroo82]

I took Chinese in college--though I didn't get particularly far. A lot of my motivation (my Chinese girlfriend) went away. Now I'm trying to learn German. Many times when I'm trying to say a word in a sentence, the Chinese equivalent of words will come out instead. Fun times.

[@Yzahcken00]

THANK YOU for sharing these insights!! Curiosity, connections, obligations, moments of success, context. May God bless you !!

[@jojoflark835]

I read Manga in foreign languages, and my motivation never stops. One piece, demon slayer, spy family, my hero academia, even shojo... it's my way and it works, I'm french, i learned English, then Japanese, then, actually.... RUSSIAN

[@v0r0byov]

I can help you with Russian if you want

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

Just from reading?

[@brian81877]

My failures actually motivate me more than my successes.

[@samgrafton1455]

Loving LingQ! Could we please add HINDI as soon as possible. Punjabi and Tamil would also compliment it BEAUTIFULLY. Especially since LingQ already has Gujarati.

[@JulieStudies]

I would luuuv it if they added Urdu! 🎉

[@cornstar1253]

Punjabi

[@clementgomes9599]

And Bengali

[@nobuwaka2002a]

Your talking is my motivation of learning English.

[@timl3305]

Discipline > Motivation

[@gabrielbarnagaud6287]

This is senseless, discipline needs motivation, motivation needs discipline, no need to look for hierarchies

[@lestergreen2828]

@@gabrielbarnagaud6287he’s kind of right though, motivation comes and goes, you cant always rely on being motivated to put the work in. If you only do stuff when you feel motivated your progress will probably be much slower

[@timl3305]

@@gabrielbarnagaud6287 Motivation will get you started and may re-energise you from time to time but only daily discipline will see your project, whether that’s language or anything for that matter, through to the end.

[@donkbonktj5773]

True, but discipline without motivation will be a tedious journey.

[@Tehui1974]

I've been learning my target language since the start of 2019. I've reached a B2 / C1 level now. Looking back, I don't know how I managed to stay motivated during those 4 1/2 years. Some of it was establishing and maintaining good habits, and the other was just my strong desire to become fluent in the language. If I only I had the same desire and habits when it comes to exercising everyday. LOL

[@gustavrus]

i have suffered with lack of confidence whilst speaking another language, sometimes even online environments such as social media aghast me, therefore, in order to build my confidence I am working on meditation and self-affirmation that I can speak languages, I just have to overcome that dreadful feeling that comes with shyness, which is lack of confidence!!

[@phoenixknight8837]

It's ok to make mistakes. Sometimes they can be really funny and make for a nice story when you are more fluent. Just find a comfortable situation to practice and a chosen topic to communicate about that you feel able to do so. Find someone who is willing to practice and listen to you, perhaps a language exchange partner.

[@donkbonktj5773]

Try to think like this: You've probably met someone who's not great at speaking your native language, but you don't feel any embarrassment for them (if that makes sense). Furthermore, you might also respect their confidence to speak a foreign language. Most people will probably think like this when you talk in your target language.

[@jordan484]

Thank you. I’m tryna learn Turkish for my friend in Turkey. I’ve known her for 4 years now and I’m lacking heavily on my Turkish.

[@davidbrisbane7206]

I find that merely wanting to communicate isn't a sufficient reason to learn a language. Why do I say this? Because I speak English and almost everyone's second language is English. Plus AI translators do a great job these days in rendering any phrase into a target language. My main motivation in learning German is to understand how Germans describe concepts in language. To my surprise, a concept in English is not in a one to one correspondence with a concept in German. This extends the domain of concepts far greater than would be available to me if I only spoke English. This is liberating, asit allows me to have different thought patterns. Patterns I would not have if I didn't learn another language. An AI translator on its own would not afford me this ability.

[@rubentriana1151]

Tengo diferentes motivaciones para aprender varios idiomas. Me interesa aprender inglés porque quiero disfrutar de las películas en su idioma original. El francés me atrae porque muchos de mis libros favoritos fueron escritos en ese idioma, y sueño con leer En busca del tiempo perdido en su idioma original. Por último, el alemán me interesa porque me brinda acceso a los mejores conocimientos de arte y arquitectura, y muchos de los textos que tratan sobre estos temas no han sido traducidos al español.

[@Toolie-u9w]

Estoy de acuerdo contigo. Aprendes los todos al mismo tiempo? O te sólo interesan y aprendes uno?

[@rubentriana1151]

@@Toolie-u9w Actualmente dos idiomas, inglés y alemán. Decidí aprenderlos al mismo tiempo porque mis circunstancias actuales me lo permiten, ya que dispongo de más tiempo libre. De no ser así, hubiera continuado con el plan de aprenderlos de uno en uno y lograr mi meta a un largo plazo.

[@Toolie-u9w]

​@@rubentriana1151 That´s nice to be curious and be willing to learn new things. I am glad to see that there are smart and ambitious people in the world. Could I ask you where are you from?

[@Toolie-u9w]

Could've responded in Spanish, pero you learn English and it would be good for you to practice

[@andryrakotonarivo3183]

Misaotra betsaka, Thank you, Merci, ありがとうございます。

[@ossamagamer1810]

That is right we can motivate our self but that need some patience in the begining of this journey and we can do this exciting by deciding the languge with our entertainment such as like watching cartoon or movies and when taking our coffee with reading articles or news paper in english also when we was doing hobbies

[@M0N3YRAX]

Motivation < Discipline

[@sandrareginabragavazdallon3844]

No meu caso a obrigação tem sido motivo de frustração, tenho um inglês básico e não estou conseguindo aprender mais. Estou na Austrália 🇦🇺, preciso me comunicar e falta vocabulário. Quero falar com minha neta e parar de depender dos meus filhos. É frustrante. Mas preciso aproveitar que estou aqui para melhorar meu inglês. Mas o leastening and speaking são difíceis

[@Thelinguist]

Please try LingQ.

[@musicbrazilian7065]

Se voce quer realmente melhorar seu ingles toma cursos universitarios ai na Australia. O ingles eh uma lingua antiga e muito rica de forma que cada area tem o seu propio vocabulario. E como o angloxason eh a linguagem do poder a universidade eh o local ideal pra voce realmente aumentar o seu vocabulario e sacasoes.

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

Podemos ajudar uns aos outros se você quiser. Eu li o que você disse, mais ou menos sem o traduzir. Mas minha português é terrível também. E só conseguindo pior. Talvez não... mas isso é o jeito que eu sinto. Tô perdendo motivação. Não tenho uma pessoa para ligar.. se você quiser podemos trocar línguas no telefone. Fala um pouco em inglês, um pouco em português. Maybe back and forth, as we struggle to get words in our target language 😂. Não sei como efectivo ele é desde nós não somos professores/ "tutors". Desculpa.. É difícil pensar das palavras 😅 É difícil pensar em palavras.. estou tentando usar qualquer coisa que eu posso sem usando a traduzir 😅. Espero que você me entender. (Eu sou dos estados unidos)

[@sajza1728]

Amazing content! Many thanks Steve!

[@futurez12]

'Moments of success' is sooo motivating during the early stages and then they become more and more rare as you progress to higher levels. They're there, if they weren't you wouldn't be progressing at all, but it does sometimes feel like those successful moments have completely dried up. ☹

[@J_Trask]

I think another aspect of success is to have pure grit and stubborn tenacity 😂😊

[@l.tjustonsenack]

It's amazing how many pll nowadays r not motivated

[@賴文茹-y1w]

5 triggers to motivation : Curiosity Connections Obligation A sense of success Contexts

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

I have a friend that I've been learning Portuguese for for almost 2 years now, by the end of 2023. And we "talked" twice on the phone. I say talked but I was just scared so nothing really came out and I understood nothing.. so now every time I ask if we can talk she has always said "yes" or "maybe" but yes or maybe never comes. And I'm willing to try as hard as I can.. maybe I'll understand a little.. maybe not.. my comprehension of spoken Portuguese is terrible but I've been trying to work on it. But now my motivation has been tanking 📉 hence why I'm watching the video(s). I just feel like she doesn't want to talk even though I know she's very happy that I'm learning for her.. but sometimes I just feel like I'm wasting my time 😔 anyone else have a similar experience? Hopefully I'll be motivated again.. I need a hooray moment again. Haven't had one in over a month and I was very happy with my finding. But now it's just so hard to learn. I feel like I understand nothing.. even worse that I KNOW and have known for a long time, because my motivation is tanking:/

[@LuisDiego-h6z]

Hey Steve, how's it going? I just wanted to tell you that I'm currently learning Swedish, but last year I tried to learn Spanish and I succeeded, I didn't reach out for a c1, but I am in a b2, but now that I'm practising Swedish and stop with Spanish, I already forget most of what I had learned, so, I missed the Spanish tbf, and it is so important here where I live, so don't know what to do.

[@kingjulian1202]

Every once in a while I consider taking an English C2 proficiency exam... I mean I stopped studying English about a year or two ago, and unless it's like a scientific context, I barely see new words, it's grown to the extent that I do most things in English, I think in English, I have all my devices in English, even if I want to look something up I just search for it in English, but even so I don't think I'm C2 level because when I look at C2 exams questions and the expected answers I could answer like that, but it feels so unnatural to use overly complicated words and it feels like I'd just randomly put in more complexity without there being a need for it...

[@m.wilkinson9559]

That's the thing with language, it's meant to serve us rather than be a performance (which is what exams are) and usually we like things simple and straightforward so it's more natural to use simple language well rather than complicated language in a place that didn't call for it really.

[@robertoestevao1310]

My problem is to keep my self motivated for a long time, I've been studying English for five years and I'm still not in C1 level. Something I get frustrated and I stop studying for a few weeks and when I got back it seems I'm in level B1 again.

[@Brooks003]

Hello, I have a question about your system (reading and listening) I am very interested in this, how many hours, more or less, is necessary every day listening and reading? Maybe you can to do a video explain this. Thank you

[@Jawst]

I like to smoke a strain of cannabis called Dance World, it's low in THC and makes you very creative and productive. I can literally work 17 hours straight with a few 15min breaks. It's more like a cup of coffee, as long as you have something to stay focused on it is perfect.. if you don't have anything to keep you focused, you may find your self making a bug hotel or maybe a random diorama 😂

[@kosmokost]

Hey Steve, how was golf with the korean guy?

[@valentina_fantasy]

Many thanks! Very inspiring

[@canan7954]

Of course

[@itsisa1319]

Needed this 😊 thank you

[@ZipfelmannKD]

Discipline keeps us goings, not motivation

[@budekins542]

Thank you for speaking at a moderate pace. I was motivated to watch this video using Spanish subtitles and KZbin's speech recognition software was largely able to translate accurately. KZbin fails to translate when speakers talk too fast.

[@adriantepesut]

I love the process of language learning and the very phenomenon of verbal expression itself However it was really cool and especially motivating when I initially got to a level where it was more efficient and helpful to use Romanian with my grandmother in certain situations and when talking about certain subjects Because that meant she was no longer just indulging my desire to learn because I’m her grandson; it meant I had actually learned it to a decent level

[@MaxCJ]

It can be a slog sometimes, but getting airborne - what a great way to express it, one day!

[@cornstar1253]

Ive been learning punjabi for almost a year now. I can read and write but still only catch the occasional word that i understand in conversation. Im getting frustrated and dont have any native speakers to practice with besides my tutor a few times a week. I feel like im wasting money, but will continue for another year to see if i can get to the conversation level eventually.

[@ashinka8708]

❤

[@navedian739]

DNA 1-5--6-3 litrally reads "God iternal within the body" in the Quran n all 3 languages Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit, the 3 root languages❤😂❤

[@LanguageswithErman]

Inspiring...

[@ahmedqodax1980]

Can't hear you the volume is too low

[@daveinchina]

I am learning Mandarin. Just had a really bad experience with a Chinese woman on a few dates. Now I am off learning Mandarin.....

[@xavierpaquin]

There's half a billion other ones

[@daveinchina]

@@xavierpaquin I know Xavier. Thank you. You know though, at that/the time, it feels like she is the only one. Best wishes Xavier.

[@cornstar1253]

I know, they are nasty and a big turn off for me.

[@daveinchina]

@@cornstar1253 In their 20's some/(they) are nasty. Then the looks go and in their 30's and 40's they become desperate women.

[@MRX6]

اسطورة

[@維騎]

中國用 大陸2字 是統戰詞 國際都用CHINA

[@robertvarner9519]

At 68 I don"t give a goddamn anymore. How's that for motivation?

[@kamillafehretdinova7613]

Thank you very much for this video! Very useful)I have been listening your podcasts today during whole day .Thanks!🥹

[@andrearshun6456]

To much talk, bolster