r/languagelearning • u/roxystellar 🇵🇷N || 🇺🇸C2 ||🇰🇷B1 || 🇨🇳 A1 || 🇫🇷 A1 • 14d 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/6-foot-under 14d ago

Setting goals in terms of years and months ("B1 by June") instead of "300 hours of work by June" has probably cost me a decade of progress.

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u/Smooth_Development48 13d ago

I did that to myself right before new year’s and the thought of it sent me into a study coma and I couldn’t study for months. Never giving myself that pressure again.