31 Steps to Learn a New Language: Step #2 - Set Achievable Goals
It is easy to get side-tracked and feel uninspired when learning a new language. It is important to have a clear set of feasible goals that one must strive to meet to maintain interest in learning and avoid losing focus.
Avoid setting ambiguous goals that fail to produce tangible results. More often than not, these types of goals only end up demotivating a learner because they do not have a specific end target in sight. This leads a person to feel as though they've failed and discourage them to keep trying. Goals like "be fluent" or "be able to carry on a conversation with a native" are examples of these.
How fluent is fluent enough?
What kind of conversation does this person want to have?
If questions like these arise, then most likely the goal is not achievable. An example of a solid objective to have would be something like "to be able to recite the Hail Mary prayer in Spanish". Another one is "to be able to write my full name and address in the Korean hangeul alphabet". These have concrete outputs and are easy to perform and thus, they will motivate a learner to achieve them.
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I was in a bookstore and was reading a book about a man that lived about a century ago or longer and was fluent in over 70 languages. This man, whose name I forget, would be able to learn a language he had never heard before within a week. The book was apparently going to speculatively break down how he was able to do this. I didn't buy the book as I was just killing time, but I'd really like to find this book again. Kind of an anticlimactic story I suppose, and a little bit of a Hail Mary to anyone that knows what book I'm talking about.
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