do you have trouble staying motivated to learn English you're not alone in this
video I'll show you some powerful ways to improve your motivation hey guys
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okay the topic for today is four ways to stay motivated when learning a language
do you have trouble staying motivated has it ever been an issue for you let us
know in the comments today you'll discover four powerful tactics for
maintaining motivation and I'll show you how to apply them to our learning
program okay so some time ago you made the decision to learn a new language
then you took the first step you started which is super important but you also
need to keep going for that you need motivation so how do you stay motivated
or regain motivation if you've lost it here are four simple ways to stay
motivated and keep going number one find a way to enjoy learning number two see
your progress number three have something to lose number four do it
regardless of how you feel let's start with the first one number
one find a way to enjoy learning if you want to reach a goal or learn a language
you need to ask yourself some questions how are you going to do it is it through
a your desire to reach this goal or be the actual learning process you can want
and think and dream about the goal all you want but it's the process the
learning not the wanting that actually gets you there so you have to enjoy the
process how well what interests you what's your passion are you into sports
TV shows music watching YouTube traveling whatever it
is take your interests and base your language learning on that take lessons
based on the topics you love you already have an emotional connection to your
interests right this makes learning much more enjoyable and keeps you motivated
with our learning program you get free vocabulary and phrases on all sorts of
topics for example if you're into travel you can instantly get a bunch of
vocabulary and phrase list that you can learn with or you can search through our
lesson library to find audio and video lessons focused on travel you can use
these to master entire conversations based on your interest or passion
imagine being able to talk about your passion in your target language or
talking to native speakers that share your passion how fun would that be all
right next up number two senior progress this is the next best way to stay
motivated imagine going to the gym for a few weeks and finally starting to see
some muscle in the mirror seeing results is pretty motivating it feels good to
see progress it's fun so how do you apply that to language learning you
can't really see language muscles but there are a few things you can do first
if you're learning with your own tutor or even with our Premium Plus teacher
you can ask them to give you feedback after every lesson imagine hearing you
did great here your pronunciation was perfect you're close to mastering verb
conjugation you just need to practice more this kind of feedback is very
motivating to hear if someone told you that you had improved wouldn't you be
excited second you can track your progress with
our dashboard on the site so when you finish a lesson the dashboard tracks
that and shows you how far you've come hours studied lessons completed and how
close you are to finishing a learning pathway if you see that you've finished
30 lessons and have put in fifteen hours you'll realize that you can easily do
another 30 and that you want to put in more time and the more time you put into
language learning the better you get third come back and review a lesson
you've done for see how much you understand the
second or third time around when you realize that you can understand more
than before it feels good it's a sign that you know more words more grammar
rules and that you've made progress number three have something to lose this
is a little unusual but it works a great way to motivate yourself is to try not
to lose something in psychology it's called loss aversion studies show we
feel more upset about losing ten dollars than we feel happy about finding ten
dollars now how do you apply this to language use loss aversion as motivation
invest in a language learning textbook or a learning program by an app if you
have a basic premium or Premium Plus subscription then you're already putting
this tactic to use the point is because you don't want to waste your investment
you'll value and use the resource a lot more it's hard to assign value to free
stuff but if you work hard to save up money for something and you finally get
it you'll value it more right number four do it regardless of how you feel
this tactic might help you make the most language-learning progress of all in
reality you'll feel tired some days some days your mind will be elsewhere and you
won't want to learn and some days life will happen things will pop up school
work tests birthdays you might get sick but do it anyway
learn language anyway do one audio lesson a day to keep it easy review the
word of the day email which we send out daily this takes only a minute just put
in the time even if it's a few minutes as long as you keep going and maintain
the habit you're better off in the long run so take these tactics and apply them
to your lessons apply just one stick with it and you'll notice a change in
your motivation now speaking of lessons and resources
here are the new lessons and resources for this month
first the how to count to 1 billion PDF eBook this will help you master numbers
in your target language if you can't count from 1 to 10 or 100 yet you'll
learn how and yes you can go up to 1 billion next the talking online cheat
sheet if you want to learn online slang then you'll love this PDF cheat sheet
you'll also find plenty of Internet related words and phrases inside and
finally the 25 most commonly used verbs if you're a beginner and you don't know
the most common verbs this free mini lesson is perfect for you
you can drill all of the words with the audio slideshow until they're stuck in
your brain to get these free lessons and resources go to English class 101.com
slash free alright guys in the last episode of English monthly review we
asked you all to submit a video or audio recording of yourself speaking the
language introducing yourself in the language so thank you to everyone that
sent in a submission you've all gotten a Premium Plus subscription as a reward
now let's take a look at some of the videos hi my name is Emma I live in an
office with you and I have been trying to learn English for so many years and I
never called to myself trying to speak English but a few years ago I have seen
some videos to an English class for a while and I saw about the challenge so
when I saw that I talked with me so let's do it
let's try and see what's happening so already I am trying to speak English and
I wanna thank you guys for your battery and thank you for all answers in all the
years on English class 101 they are so helpful so thank you again and see you
later hey everyone it's me bahar from
Azerbaijan I'm living in as a region in Gabon and I'm a student
I'm studying at the University of language in Baku I'm 20 years old I've
been watching your videos about I think two years and I've learned a lot of
things from your videos from your I can say host Alisha because he's a
motivational speech but a rational smile make me always believe myself and by
this way I am learning a lot of things when I when I write a comment you
answered yes when I asked something you answered yes when I have in troubles
when I went something stuck on my head you always try to help me thank you for
this Thank You Alisha thank you for kindness I love everyone I
like English class 101 duck hunting Thank You hi Alicia this is stuff from
Gidget but it's not a very far from a flung area of Pakistan hope you will be
enjoying your life and this message finds you in the best of your health and
separate eye I think urine have heard the name of Pakistan but you might have
heard the name of k2 the second-highest warm weren't a world and mountain so I
belong to the land of k2 so which entry did you like the best leave a comment
below or do you think you can do better here's the next challenge for you yes
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