My blog If you firmly decide to study foreign language, for example you want to have opportunity to understand what is sung in the song, you automatically listening to the foreign song, will try to understand it. At first it will be only some words, then phrases, sentences. If you do not realize your aim so the songs will be sound as background. And they do not help you study language. For everyone who want to study foreign language I will offer to do the next exercise. If you want to motivate your child, you will have to do this exercise together. In this case your child have to be by active participant. Write down why do you want to study foreign language? I have used this exercise in self-motivation training. It is very effective exercise. 1) Write down which benefits you could get if you studied foreign language (the more benefits is better) 2) Every benefit assign for another three ones. This is my example: I want to study English because: 1. I can communicate with people in other countries Benefit: - To expend my circle of acquaintance - During your journey natives could tell you more about their countries. This information I could not find in a guidebook. - Exchange of professional experience. 2. I can watch films in English Benefit: - Some films are not translated in Russian. - …and so on. After this exercise you can feel changes of your opinion about studying language and will rise your motivation. Before learning to remember your benefits and start to study! Please, correct mistakes in my text)