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Greetings folks,
I thought I would just spend a few minutes and give a quick hello to everyone here :) I’ve been trying to learn Japanese, or rather trying to STICK to learning Japanese for god knows how long and I thought to myself that if I don’t learn it now then I never will.
I’m sure everyone has experienced that sensation where they have this immense drive and inspiration to start learning Japanese but as time progresses that feeling gradually fades and you find yourself losing that rush which you experienced when you first started out. God I wish someone could bottle that incredible feeling and when you start feeling low or when you experience that sense of regressing you can just take a quick swig of this bottle of “inspiration” and power on through. But no, it’s all down to willpower.
When signing up to TextFugu I was able to answer the first question “Why are you learning Japanese?” instantly. But after writing my reasons down they felt sort of…well shallow. Cliche as it’s going to sound my interest in the Japanese language derived from my obsession of Manga’s, Anime’s and Video Games which sadly the bulk of which never reaches the U.K and even if I decided to import anything over I don’t posses the capability (Yet) to understand the language to a decent degree. The other reason being quite simply I would love to add another language to my skill set. So my reasons for learning the language must be a fairly commonly heard thing around here but it’s the honest truth so I wont sugar coat it.
What excuses hold you back?
I pretty much copied and pasted this from the text file I just typed up as a reminder in case I start to slack off.
- Losing my drive to Learn the language, “Burning out”
- The task seems almost impossible and I feel as if I’ve
been tossed into a desert with nothing but a “stick” as my
only tool for survival.
- When I find that I’m in a rut I will always try and do
something else to shake off the negative feeling but it results
in speeding up the process of burning out/quitting.- I always feel like I’m in a hurry. That I must achieve
my target quickly before I burn out.So the common theme with my “excuses” are burning out/quitting. What’s frustrating is that I’m fully aware what makes me quit but I can’t seem to avoid this pitfall. My hope is that this time I can maintain my desire to learn and stick to it.
*Sigh* So tired. But I felt that writing this was a good way to solidify my thoughts, sorry for the wall of text and I hope the good people on this forum will be ready to poke me with a stick in case the “Fire” (My desire to learn) begins to go out. Thanks for reading!
-Sefearion-
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Hi Sefearion! Welcome! It’s good that you’re honest about your reasons for learning Japanese and for the things that hold you back. Knowing is the start of the battle. :)
I hope you’re able to find that motivation to make it stick this time! Feel free to post any time you need some motivation to continue.
Cassandra
“- I always feel like I’m in a hurry. That I must achieve
my target quickly before I burn out.”That’s probably a major part of it, in my unprofessional opinion. I’m struggling to come to terms with that problem myself, but one thing that’s helping is something that’s mentioned right at the start: making a tradition. Let’s say every day you wake up, then study Japanese for a while, go do something else. Or maybe when you finish work / whatever a recurring thing in your life takes place. If you do less per day, it may take a while to reach your “target” but since you won’t be focusing on that, you get closer and closer without realising it.
Now, I’ve only been here for little over a week, but that sort of method has helped me in other things in the past, and I wish you the best of luck.
Cheers for the responses thus far.
@Isaac.
The plan will be to create a tradition. We all have some sort of daily routine so the aim is to make sufficient time to learn the language, which is easy enough as long as I don’t use my excuses as a shield to slack off. I’m currently using Evernote to keep track of what I’m doing. I’ve not got work today so I’ll cram a decent few hours but try and avoid too much as it tends to contribute to my whole “Burning Out” phase.
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