Motivation
I'm not going to lie. Finding motivation to keep studying is sometimes hard if not impossible. On this site I've tried to gather inspirational quotes, funny pictures and most importantly my own thoughts about what you could do to stay motivated and what you should do when you are not. I will expand this part with more in depth scientific sources and real information later. Now this is just my gut feelings and what others have said.
Thoughts about motivation
1. Motivation is not the same as inspiration.
2. Motivation can be born within or outside oneself - the first is better but recognize what works the best and use it.
3. Set aside actual clear tagged time for studying - it will help you keep motivated.
4. Not feeling motivated is no excuse to skip set times of practice. Stick to them and motivation will return eventually.
5. Motivation does not always feel good. Sometimes it's exciting sometimes it's that nagging stressing voice inside your head.
6. Motivaiton can be grown and protected. Stick to your schedule, enjoy your accomplishments and be proud of what you do.
How to stay motivated learning a target language?
🍪 Make sure you know why you are learning the language
The reason does not have to make sense to anyone else but you. Some want to learn a language for better job opportunities and some want to learn a language to read their favourite author in the original language. Honestly, some want to learn a certain language just to be cool. It doesn't matter as long as you know why you do what you do.
🍪 Set clear goals for learning and review them every once in a while to see your progress
You can't learn everything at once so setting both short term and long term goals will aid you to achieve things. You can clearly see the progress you make and it's simply good.
🍪 Set aside time especially for learning the language
It can be ten minutes during the commute or once a week for a day. Just have at least one solid time for learning you stick to. Key to languages is repetition and revision regularly but less is more than nothing!
🍪 Find other people who are learning or natively speaking the language and connect with them
Internet is your friend on this. It's great to have peer help when you bump into problems and natives can give you insights in the language you easily miss when self learning from books or going to classes.
🍪 Reward yourself when it's earned
Stuck to your learning schedule for longer than ever? Reward yourself. Finished a course or passed an exam? Reward yourself.
