Comments on: How do you learn a foreign language? http://www.myngle.com/blog/2007/08/07/how-do-you-learn-a-foreign-language Thu, 24 May 2012 03:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: MButler http://www.myngle.com/blog/2007/08/07/how-do-you-learn-a-foreign-language/comment-page-1#comment-72 MButler Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:43:43 +0000 http://myngle.com/blog/?p=32#comment-72 In my experience when people say the reason for giving up on language study is lack of time this explanation hides a deeper，more difficult to uncover reason。 I would say， lack of time is more often an excuse rather than an explanation。 Usually it reflects on a lack of committment （who wants to admit to this?} or even a misunderstanding of the effort required。 But usually it is because the person is not enjoying the process and THAT makes him or her question the time committment。 Two other question that could substitute here are related to 1。 It was too much effort 2。 I didn‘t enjoy the learning process。 In my experience when people say the reason for giving up on language study is lack of time this explanation hides a deeper，more difficult to uncover reason。 I would say， lack of time is more often an excuse rather than an explanation。

Usually it reflects on a lack of committment （who wants to admit to this?} or even a misunderstanding of the effort required。 But usually it is because the person is not enjoying the process and THAT makes him or her question the time committment。

Two other question that could substitute here are related to
1。 It was too much effort
2。 I didn‘t enjoy the learning process。

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