4 Motivating TED Talks in Portuguese For Polishing Your Language Skills
Have you ever watched TED talks? If you have, did you find them useful and amusing?
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There are times when motivation is lost when you are a student of a language. This happens to everyone, even the most advanced student. It is something that normally happens, but do not panic, even though it is a somewhat scary feeling, stop, breathe and try these tips to regain motivation to learn a language:
1. Start step by step:
If you feel that you lack motivation, perhaps you have saturated yourself with the lessons and now you feel that the situation has gotten out of your hands. This can cause you to lose motivation completely. Start small by trying to watch episodes of series, songs, or review your vocabulary lessons for 10 minutes and work your way up little by little. You will see that every day you regain the habit and so you can resume your duties to learn the other lessons.
2. Break the routine and try something new:
Having planning and a routine brings benefits but when it comes to learning a new language it can sometimes get boring. But sometimes it is good to change the strategy to regain interest and regain motivation to learn.
If you normally review your guides at night, change the routine and review it in the afternoon or the morning while having coffee or if you practice with movies or books you can change practicing with songs while you sing and dance them or you can always choose a podcast and listen to it while you go in the transport or enjoy a walk.
3. Make a summary of your progress
If you see that you lost the motivation to study a foreign language, maybe I know because you think that you are not learning anything or that you are not progressing fast enough. Take the time and look back at everything you have achieved and how long it took. This way you will be aware of your achievements and this usually motivates you and encourages you to go for more. Look for statisticians in special applications that measure your language level or try an episode of a series that was difficult to understand before without subtitles and compare how well you understand it now. Regardless of your goals and objectives with languages, try to make them direct and concrete so that it is easier to measure your progress to date.
4. Renew your commitment to language learning
You can also take and try this opportunity to remember what were the objectives that you set yourself from the beginning or to modify them and set new goals. Perhaps you have started learning a language for work or academic reasons. But now you have a different job and you prefer to learn a language with which you can communicate on your next trip or with friends or simply change the strategy and instead of worrying so much about grammar and everything that it requires and maybe better start practicing on your vocabulary and pronunciation. Do not be afraid to modify and change your objectives, it is all valid if it improves your development and learning or if it helps you regain motivation in learning a foreign language.
