it's no secret that all of us here at
Mozilla love learning languages but that
doesn't mean we don't face some bumpy
roads from time to time so if you have
ever struggled to learn a new language
rest assured you are not alone keep
watching and you'll see that we have all
been there even those of us who have
chosen language learning as our career
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and follow our page I'd like to start by
sharing some of my own difficulties my
name is Abby and I'm your English
teacher here at mozo lingua in case you
didn't know I'm also a passionate
language learner I've been learning
French for years now and I'm happy to
say that I've reached near fluency but
that's just the problem at the moment
I'm struggling with the fact that the
better and better you get at a language
the slower and slower your progress is I
often get discouraged because I feel
like I have plateaued this feeling is so
common and so many learners experience
it that it even has a name the
intermediate Plateau even though I know
I'm learning new things often my
progress is really slow I want to keep
getting better but it takes more work to
make smaller improvements unlike when
you first start learning a new language
and you can easily double the amount you
know in just a few days to combat this
feeling I'm challenging myself to learn
more idiomatic expressions so that I can
try to bring my conversation skills
closer to a native speaker level I also
think that I'll start learning a brand
new language soon just so that I can
feel the thrill of racking up tons of
vocab super quickly but that leads me to
another one of my language dilemmas
there are so many cool languages out
there that I can't decide which one to
learn next hi this is Lizzie from was a
lingua some time ago I have launched
myself the challenge of learning German
I have
learn a decent amount of a cab and
started using sentences it would
certainly be helpful the next time I
visit a german-speaking country so let
me start by saying that to me this is
already amazing because when it comes to
this language I never thought I could do
any better than a gang and I was going
towards that I somehow memorized once
going in and out of a McDonald's in
German today that I have taken the first
steps I'm really struggling to get past
the beginner stage and to be able to
build more complex sentences about my
daily tasks unfortunately German
sentence structure although the logic
that is completely new to me and not
similar to any other language I can
speak let me give you an example let's
take a simple sentence in English I can
find the way in German this would be ich
kann then vanished fin then literally I
can the way not fine see what I mean
so now to motivate me to move forward I
keep telling myself that once I master
this I will be able to talk not only to
German people but also maybe to Master
Yoda
because right now German sentence is
still sound quite a bit like his
language to me hi
sit right here I must say I face the
same issues as Lizzy in German but I
somehow managed to get this you to speak
with some regular practice my main
problem comes from listening and
understanding a new language I don't
have much trouble speaking but paying
attention is a different story
it always happened this way my attention
gets stuck on some expression and
suddenly I lose it right I find it hard
to let go of words or expression that I
don't understand that's why I get
confused while watching foreign language
movies or having conversations with
native speakers
besides I must confess I do get easily
frustrated when I cannot understand the
conversation of a time and I mean really
frustrated still I know from experience
that this problem will fade away with
time and practice so to ease the
frustration
and stay motivated I tried to keep track
of my progress and come back to videos
that I watched then I compared what I
understood first time to what I
understand now
that's how I know that I've actually
made progress there is nothing like
looking back and appreciating the
progress you've made
hi guys lookie here if I had to pick one
language that has been difficult for me
to learn it will definitely be English
when I was in my twenties speaking
English like I'm doing right now was a
jazzy dream despite 12 years of
traditional language classes at school I
was not capable of speaking and I felt
very frustrated when travelling
especially when I met people who could
speak English fluently I was convinced
that there was the problem and that I
was not gifted at languages so my
message today is that everyone can learn
a language whatever naturally found out
was that the problem was not me but the
method and the approach I was using if
you are in this situation I really
understand you and I know it's painful
so don't give up I know it's hard but
everyone can do it including you before
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