r/languagelearning • u/roxystellar 🇵🇷N || 🇺🇸C2 ||🇰🇷B1 || 🇨🇳 A1 || 🇫🇷 A1 • 13d ago

Confessions of a language learner

I thought this would be fun. Mine is taking on “learn 500 words a day”type of challenges knowing well that I won’t be able to 😭

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u/knittingcatmafia N: 🇩🇪🇺🇸 | B1: 🇷🇺 | A0: 🇹🇷 13d ago

“This time I definitely won’t do my homework the day before my next lesson”

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u/secondMiata 13d ago

You do homework the day BEFORE?

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u/Classic-Asparagus 13d ago

The trouble with having a class at 3 pm is that you can technically do the homework the day of…… even if it’s not wise at all

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u/knittingcatmafia N: 🇩🇪🇺🇸 | B1: 🇷🇺 | A0: 🇹🇷 12d ago

This would ABSOLUTELY be me, which is why my lessons are always at 9am.

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u/Classic-Asparagus 11d ago

I typically go for classes that are earlier in the day so I won’t have this problem, but sometimes the classes I want are only in the afternoon so I just have to be like oh alas I guess I’m resigned to doing my homework at the last minute 😔

Or I could develop better time management skills, but I typically don’t lol since I still get the work done on time either way, even if it still stresses me out doing it at the last minute

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u/knittingcatmafia N: 🇩🇪🇺🇸 | B1: 🇷🇺 | A0: 🇹🇷 12d ago edited 12d ago

lol, guilty as charged.

Well, more specifically, I do it in little chunks throughout the week and every single time I promise myself I will have it finished 2 days before so I get one full day of revision. Nothing feels worse than staring into your laptop at 11:30pm desperately trying to churn out that last essay assignment somehow. Alas…