Bored with your regular language lessons? It’s a normal phase to go through. There are many reasons why you may be feeling this way, though, and you’ll need to address the correct reasons if you’re going to get over this hump.
Some people can get bored because they do the same things over and over. You spend the mornings getting lessons from your language program and doing the exercises. At the end of the week, you then meet up with a study group to practice speaking and interacting in the target language. While that sounds like a perfectly reasonable schedule, boredom really could inevitably sink in.
In that case, a great way to get over the temporary snag is by upping the ante a bit. You know, make it a little more challenging than usual. Learning new words and memorizing them has probably become so par for the course that it barely makes you pay attention, so spice it up a little by raising the difficulty ever so slightly.
Problem is, how do you make your regular lessons and practice just a tad more challenging? One way is to do more in the same time period. If your language training software has you learning 10 new words per session, bump it up a bit by doing 12. Instead of doing just the allotted exercises, go back to past exercises and do them again.
Fact is, people engage their faculties best when the demands on them are a little greater than usual. Put in such situations, they also end up giving more than the usual. As long as the challenge isn’t over your head, it’s the very thing that will keep you from boredom.
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