“I really want to learn English, but where to get it for this time?”,” Yes, I would be glad – there would be abilities “,” The language, of course, is very necessary, but the courses are not cheap. »KOUCH Oksana Kravets tells where to find time to learn a foreign language and how to use the” find “with maximum benefit.
Let’s start with the main one. The talent for the study of foreign languages is the concept of relative. As the translator and writer Kato Lomb said, “Success in the study of the language is determined by a simple equation: the time spent + interest = result”.
I am sure that everyone has the necessary resources in order to realize what is desired. Yes, there are a number of objective reasons why it becomes more difficult to study new languages with age, but at the same time, it is precisely over the years that understanding of oneself and its needs comes, and actions become more conscious. This helps to achieve goals more efficiently.
True motivation and real goal is the key to success
Decide on motivation. Why are you studying or want to learn a foreign language? What or who motivates you? This is your desire or need caused by external circumstances?
Form a goal. What terms do you set for yourself and what do you want to achieve during this time? Think about whether it is achievable and real at all your goal. How do you know that you have reached it?
Perhaps you want to master one season of the series “Sex and the City” in English without subtitles or in a week to translate and start quoting funny dialogs from Simpsons in a week. Or maybe your goal is measured by the number of words that need to be learned, or the number of books that you would like to read?
The goal should motivate you to regular classes. The more realistic and more understandable to you, the more noticeable the progress. Fix it on paper, tell your friends, plan actions.
How to find time?
Make a timing. Use the application for a smartphone with which you can fix all the actions that you perform from the moment you wake up and until you go to bed, including smoke breaks and all coffee coffee coffee, or fix all your actions in the notebook for a week. I guarantee that in a week you will learn a lot about yourself!
Analyze how your day looks like. What or who absorbs your precious time and energy? Social networks or an overly sociable colleague? Or maybe telephone conversations “nothing”?
Found? Gradually, minimize the time that you spend on chronophages – the absorptions of your precious minutes and watches.
Time was found. What’s next?
Suppose, as a result of the “Revision”, a little time was free. Think about how you can apply it with maximum benefit. What gives you the greatest pleasure? Listen to podcasts or audio guns? Read books, play on a smartphone using special language applications?
I am now studying German, so German music, podcasts and audio guns that I listen to work on the way or during walks are jammed in the tablet. In my bag there are always adapted books and comics in German: I read them in transport, in line or in anticipation of the meeting. I record unfamiliar, but often repeated words and expressions in the application for a smartphone, checking their meaning in the electronic dictionary.
A few more tips
Communicate. If you do not speak the language that you study, it is dead for you. You can not feel all the melody and rhythm of the tongue without pronouncing words aloud. Almost every language school has conversational clubs that can visit everyone.
I am sure that in your environment there is a person who knows the language at a sufficient level. You can communicate with him by walking
around the city or arranging tea drinking houses. This is a great opportunity not only to practice, but also to spend time in a good company.
Find like -minded people. It is much more interesting to learn a language with a partner, girlfriend or child. Like -minded people will become your resource to support motivation.
Turn obstacles into assistants. There is not enough time to learn a foreign language, since you are sitting with a small child? Learn the names of animals, put him children’s songs in a foreign language, speak. Repeating many times the same simple expressions, you will learn them.
Whatever the language you learn, systematicity is always important. Language is a muscle that needs to be pumped for relief and strength.