Getting bored with your language lessons? It could be you’re not challenging yourself enough.
Regardless of what software you’re using to study a language, you need adequate stimulation to keep yourself on the ball. When the lessons and exercises are too easy, you’re going to slack off. If you want to be on top of your game, it’s important to deliberately seek out things that can challenge you for a while.
This usually isn’t a problem early on. Having zero knowledge of a language, everything you get feels new. At some point, though, you’re going to settle into a groove and you have to watch out for when you’re doing your lessons on automatic.
What can you do when you realize you need a little more challenge?
- Change your primary learning materials. Don’t make a drastic change like enroll in an expensive class or anything like that. Instead, pick up something that isn’t going to require too much of an expense, like using a free language learning website or trying a second-hand book for a couple of weeks.
- Jump to more difficult lessons. If the current lessons in the sequence are too easy, try skipping to more difficult portions of your language software. You can return to the ones you skip later.
- Use the language. If there are available opportunities to use the language (e.g. you’re in a foreign country), drop your lessons and hit the streets. The change of pace, along with the challenge of overcoming obstacles to communication, should do you good.
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