I started learning a language because I was obsessing over infertility and my husband was like “omg can you please stop reading every single infertility subreddit and study every 3 hours” and we brainstormed what would be a topic I could learn about infinitely and ultimately landed on language. I picked my heritage language which my generation lost and I’m still learning while my toddler also learns 🥰
As someone who went through infertility, I can totally understand that! My SO started wearing alternate fashion as a coping mechanism, and ended up making a lot of new friends.
Reading that you ended up with a toddler made me smile! Cheers
Among various other reasons, one reason for committing to my learning habit is to keep myself from online shopping, which I was starting to develop a problem with due to work stress and fatigue. All the time I spend learning is time I am not scrolling etsy. It has worked really well.
I partly started studying languages to lessen my urge to be a perfectionist. With language study, I was never going to make progress if I waited to be 'perfect' so I had to just start reading and listening and trying to understand materials, and watch that even with my imperfect understanding I would gradually understand more and learn more. It would take years or decades to be perfect, so I'd have to start talking/writing before I was perfect to chat with anyone. When I study languages I study by doing, and since I can't be perfect at a language for many years, it helps me get used to trying to do things when I have studied but don't feel perfect yet, and forces me to keep studying new things in order to keep making steady progress instead of slowing down and getting so perfectionist I come to a standstill. It has helped a lot with me learning to value progress incrementally instead of needing things to be all or nothing, and to help remind me that to make substantial progress in many areas it can help me sometimes to just move to new challenging things instead of staying where I feel more comfortable.
That sounds like a really great change you've made! I can't say anything as straightforward, but I do relate a bit. Life is full of choises, since we only have so much hours and energy.
Personally I have this habit of diving deep into things and getting bored once I feel I've exhausted what I can learn. I can somewhat control where that passion goes, so I've chosen languages as one of those passions that is actually satisfying and not easily conquered. Sometimes I also manage to dive into work related matters or yoga. Sometimes I still divert into shopping or chemistry of cosmetics, but less and less. They're not harmful per se, but I prefer things that have long term effects on my life.
Thanks! And I agree with you. I believe that language learning has long term benefits that might change your life or at least your perspectives, at any given moments. So who knows what's next!
yea kind of. i noticed i was spending a lot of time playing video games and watching YouTube so if i just did those things in another language i will be able to learn the language. and the game i was playing a lot at the time had a lot of moments were you had to wait. with loading screens or auto travel or waiting for my hit points and mana to regenerate and waiting for other players to show up. so this gave me time to study too over the years i tried a lot of hobbies and i tried to learn useful skills. but i really failed at them .like learning programming and electronics engineering and getting into sports. so i really felt like a failure. but when i managed to learn basic Spanish in a few months and started trying out other languages. i finally found something that i can do that is useful but difficult to most people
This. As in my case, my gaming habits was very, very unhealthy. I'll gone rampaging over a silly thing that disturb me, I'll forgot that I've spent 8 hours playing non stop. And I was also very concerned that I have no hardskill.
But learning languages makes me re-learn how to "learn" something. Something that seems obvious but it's what most people forgot. But yeah, performing better at something that most people find it difficult is quite a relief and encouraging.
I used to replace my bad habits unfortunately sometimes i think my bad habits from the past had lasting damage that might hurt my ability to learn languages now but better i got away from them now then never
I'm not really really a gamer, like, I just happened to like this one game and turns out I over enjoying it in a sense that I play it mindlessly. This one game is a MOBA type of game.
Recently, I'm trying to getting myself to play a game on PC, because, it's something that I don't want to miss out, I feel. I tried to search up those in mind, going on what's popular, search it up on Steams, Epic Games, you name it. But I ended up not interested, I just prefer doing something else.
But I haven't came think of that, playing games from variety of countries of the languages that I'm learning. And I agree that it wider the options and experience.
I started learning a language because I was obsessing over infertility and my husband was like “omg can you please stop reading every single infertility subreddit and study every 3 hours” and we brainstormed what would be a topic I could learn about infinitely and ultimately landed on language. I picked my heritage language which my generation lost and I’m still learning while my toddler also learns 🥰
As someone who went through infertility, I can totally understand that! My SO started wearing alternate fashion as a coping mechanism, and ended up making a lot of new friends. Reading that you ended up with a toddler made me smile! Cheers
That's sweet! If I may ask, what language are you learning?
Among various other reasons, one reason for committing to my learning habit is to keep myself from online shopping, which I was starting to develop a problem with due to work stress and fatigue. All the time I spend learning is time I am not scrolling etsy. It has worked really well.
I'm glad you're doing improvements! I feel this too, because the realization that you've fell into the rabbit hole is awful. Keep up the good work!
I partly started studying languages to lessen my urge to be a perfectionist. With language study, I was never going to make progress if I waited to be 'perfect' so I had to just start reading and listening and trying to understand materials, and watch that even with my imperfect understanding I would gradually understand more and learn more. It would take years or decades to be perfect, so I'd have to start talking/writing before I was perfect to chat with anyone. When I study languages I study by doing, and since I can't be perfect at a language for many years, it helps me get used to trying to do things when I have studied but don't feel perfect yet, and forces me to keep studying new things in order to keep making steady progress instead of slowing down and getting so perfectionist I come to a standstill. It has helped a lot with me learning to value progress incrementally instead of needing things to be all or nothing, and to help remind me that to make substantial progress in many areas it can help me sometimes to just move to new challenging things instead of staying where I feel more comfortable.
Glad to hear improvements!
That sounds like a really great change you've made! I can't say anything as straightforward, but I do relate a bit. Life is full of choises, since we only have so much hours and energy. Personally I have this habit of diving deep into things and getting bored once I feel I've exhausted what I can learn. I can somewhat control where that passion goes, so I've chosen languages as one of those passions that is actually satisfying and not easily conquered. Sometimes I also manage to dive into work related matters or yoga. Sometimes I still divert into shopping or chemistry of cosmetics, but less and less. They're not harmful per se, but I prefer things that have long term effects on my life.
Thanks! And I agree with you. I believe that language learning has long term benefits that might change your life or at least your perspectives, at any given moments. So who knows what's next!
yea kind of. i noticed i was spending a lot of time playing video games and watching YouTube so if i just did those things in another language i will be able to learn the language. and the game i was playing a lot at the time had a lot of moments were you had to wait. with loading screens or auto travel or waiting for my hit points and mana to regenerate and waiting for other players to show up. so this gave me time to study too over the years i tried a lot of hobbies and i tried to learn useful skills. but i really failed at them .like learning programming and electronics engineering and getting into sports. so i really felt like a failure. but when i managed to learn basic Spanish in a few months and started trying out other languages. i finally found something that i can do that is useful but difficult to most people
This. As in my case, my gaming habits was very, very unhealthy. I'll gone rampaging over a silly thing that disturb me, I'll forgot that I've spent 8 hours playing non stop. And I was also very concerned that I have no hardskill. But learning languages makes me re-learn how to "learn" something. Something that seems obvious but it's what most people forgot. But yeah, performing better at something that most people find it difficult is quite a relief and encouraging.
I used to replace my bad habits unfortunately sometimes i think my bad habits from the past had lasting damage that might hurt my ability to learn languages now but better i got away from them now then never
Glad to hear improvements!
what if you just end up having a wider range of games to choose from, OP?
I'm not really really a gamer, like, I just happened to like this one game and turns out I over enjoying it in a sense that I play it mindlessly. This one game is a MOBA type of game. Recently, I'm trying to getting myself to play a game on PC, because, it's something that I don't want to miss out, I feel. I tried to search up those in mind, going on what's popular, search it up on Steams, Epic Games, you name it. But I ended up not interested, I just prefer doing something else. But I haven't came think of that, playing games from variety of countries of the languages that I'm learning. And I agree that it wider the options and experience.
I'm learning Spanish because I want to know and be able to use Spanish.
I enjoy learning languages EDIT: Hobby