Thanks for the responses, lots of interesting ideas.

I think my main point is that I often feel motivated to learn languages but I don't feel motivated every time that I study languages.

At the moment I'm mainly focusing on Japanese, and I have many reasons why I want to learn the language - I'm living in Japan, it's my girlfriend's native language, and I get a buzz out of making progress. I think I'm highly motivated to learn Japanese, but this feeling comes and goes. If I only studied when I'm motivated I'd be studying a couple of times a week, but I ensure that I study every day because I know it will be worth it in the long run.

I also think that discipline helps you in the long run. In the very early stages you can learn so much about a language and each day, though the more you learn, the slower progress becomes (proportionately). So my experience was that it was very easy to be motivated when I started, but then I needed more discipline to keep going. With Spanish I felt the same way and feel as though this discipline paid off in the end. I'm now immensely satisfied because I can now function in Spanish (watching Spanish television without subtitles, reading novels, conversing about most subjects although with some errors). 

I feel as though it was motivation that made me want to study Spanish, though it was discipline that allowed me to reach my goal. I feel as though I'm now going through the same difficult period where I need to rely on discipline.

Thank you very much for all your opinions and thank you as well if you watched my video.

Letter to an English-speaking friend

Hi Alex!
Thank you for your email! Sorry to be for being so slow getting back to you. I´m delighted to go there with you because your family is very funny and I have a very good time with them.

Unfortunately, I couldn´t go on sailing last year. If you remember, I bought a new car and I needed to earn some money so I was working as a waiter in my uncle´s restaurant all the summer. I couldn´t enjoy my holidays but I´m sure this summer is going to be better.

I´ll go with us you to the boat race, of course! I have never participated in a boat sailing competition and it must be an exciting experience. I really look forward to taking part in one, count on me.

I think that my sister would really like to go on a sailing but she is fifteen years old. Do you know if minors can participate in the race?

Don´t forget to write soon,

Love
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