Negative attitudes Negative attitudes One of the reasons why people don’t want to spend their time on learning languages is that they associate learning languages with unpleasant things. When they think “learning languages”, they think about boring languages classes, boring exercises and boring homework. Even if they know they need languages in their career, that might not be very motivating if the job itself is boring! In their minds, learning languages are something they have to do, not something they want to do