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Create Opportunities for Language Learning Success

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Language learning websites and newsletters are filled with discussions about making language learning your New Year’s resolution.

Awesome! I heartily support this resolution, but … let’s fast forward three months…

Life happens. We all get busy. There are groceries to buy, projects due, and papers to write. We spend time with friends and family. We play video games, talk on the phone, chat, and text. Sometimes we just want to do nothing more than spend an evening watching TV.

Knowing this, the next step in helping you maintain your motivation during your language learning journey is to build language learning reminders into your daily life.

Most people already create opportunities for success in their daily lives in a variety of ways.

Maybe you put your grocery list in your purse. Maybe you put a reminder into your email calendar to call your mother on her birthday. You ask your husband to call you and remind you to pick up medicine at the pharmacy on the way home. Doctors and dentists send out email reminders or call you before an appointment. If you own a car and take it into the shop, the shop owners put a little sticker in the window telling you when you need to return.
While these examples are specific to American culture, I’m sure you can think of the things you do to help you remember to do what needs to get done in your life. Try to replicate these types of reminders and apply them to your language studies.

Answer: How can you build at least one reminder into your daily life to take action with your language learning and help you achieve your goals?

Action Examples:

– If you walk the dog every evening, you would put your flashcards or Smartphone (with your flashcard app) next to the leash.
– If your plan includes completing one online lesson every evening after your favorite TV show, you might decide to store the TV remote control next to your computer keyboard or create an alarm on your phone to go off every evening at the time when the program ends.
– If your plan includes spending 15 minutes reading the front page of the local paper every day, you could sign up for a daily summary email of the front page news stories or set your computer’s homepage to be the front page of the newspaper.

Review your goals to help you focus your actions. You know what you want to do; now you need to implement these strategies. What can you do to set up reminders in your daily schedule to achieve your goals?

Take 10-15 minutes thinking about this question and then take action!

Read More:
The Type of Language Learning Goal You Should Have
Goals, Motivation, and Language Learning Success
What Makes a Great Language Learner?

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