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Motivation Issues As you may be able to tell, I am intending to learn many languages at once (though this profile is slightly dated as I have given up Turkish for the time being). With this many languages, I have a very regimented schedule for learning. However, I seem to be losing motivation for certain languages (like Ukrainian or Danish). However, I don't want to give these languages up because I truly do like them. So how do you language learners deal with motivation issues?

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According to your profile you speak English ans Spanish, right? About the other mentioned languages you seem to be beginner as there is dutch, catalan,  french, Portughese, russian, sign language, turkish, ukrain, danish when your profile is up to date.


First of all why do you need to know 9 other languages? What is the motivation for? Are you in this polyglot fever?  You cannot learn all languages at the same time. I know 5 languages because of my profession but I do not focuse on all of them. I focuse at the moment only on two. This is what I would recommend you too. You will loose your motivation when you try to learn all of them at the same time.


First I would make clear why you would like learn wish language, what is your goal. Keep in mind you will loose your skills when you do not practise them regularly which will be hard for 9 languages for the rest of your life.


Regards

Andrea

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What you're experiencing now is called language depression. You might think your learning progress is very slow or even stopped completely, but it's not. You just stopped seeing and feeling it, and it's natural. I'm sure you'll get your motivation back a little later. Good luck with Ukrainian!
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Have you heard of the saying, "jack of all trades, master of none"? What it means is that if your doing a lot of things at once, you risk being mediocre at all of those things, but never really being good or great at anything. You really should focus most of your energy on learning one or MAYBE two languages at a time if you're very dedicated.

It doesn't matter how good your schedule is, learning many languages at once will be take an enormous amount of time before you reach any real success and you NEED to feel successful otherwise your study will become boring.

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Honestly, even though you don't want to, you should let Danish, Ukranian or other languages you don't feel motivated to do go. (You don't have to let them go forever!)

Motivation is your biggest ally when the going gets tough. Starting a new language (or any skill) is easy and fun at first, but when it starts to get hard, you REALLY will need motivation. If you feel your motivation slipping, take a break from that language. It will only get worse. Then after a while, you will miss it and go back with fresh motivation.

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