"Why even plan when we live in a pandemic" 😂😂 so accurate! I kind of ended up in Spain which has never been my plan haha (im also doing language related videos in case anybody is interested😇)
"Time does not equal mental energy" - YESS, I am learning this too and trying to figure out how I can organize my day so I have enough energy to complete my goals. Thanks for sharing!!
I felt this today. I want to study for Uni and revise my chinese lessons and edit a UA-cam video and so on but my brain was like " bruuuuhhhh!!!! CHILL!" haha.
YES ABOUT BEING STOPPED AFTER EVERY WORD I think that is a big reason why people that just learn in schools are so repulsed by them, and say that they are bad at them.
Correcting mistakes all the time is a horrible way to teach a language. It's better to do that in review or at least suggesting another way to say something.
@@melekpolyglot5387 You can still study even if you're all out of mental energy. You just have to stop trying too hard. Put away your textbook, play some nice movie or something and relax. You're still learning that way.
This year I wasn't even planning on starting to study languages, but here I am, studying English since the quarantine start, and now starting with Korean
I appreciate your honesty, it's always important to show to learners that multilingual people are also normal people. Honestly, trying to get better in so many languages in just 1 year is unrealistic, with Covid or without it. I like to see you have learnt a lot from this and thanks for sharing those lessons with us. Wish you the best~~
💕 such great points! 💕 "Time does not equal mental energy". OOF. Felt that one in my soul. This coming year I would like to set more habits, and maybe less goals, too. Also, 축하해용♡
As for my language goals My goals were -get more advance in Japanese -find great Japanese friends to practice with -learn all basic French -try out Arabic and Chinese I did get good Japanese friends and my Japanese level did get better. I got most of basic French but not all of it I tried Arabic and Chinese and had a lot of fun though didn’t get high level due to pandemic reasons. So overall successful year and glad your year was too :)
1. Congrats on getting a boyfriend ! 😊😊😊😊 2 .Your point on mental energy was on point (no pun intended , sorry). I planned to read like almost a book per day because my college admissions are going on and I have a lot of free time , but I soon realised that nah , not gonna happen. I am now doing it slowly and trying not to burn out ... so , highly accurate point.
Oh my god a person who works 10-7! Finally a video featuring someone with the same mentally draining work schedule who doesn't have 24 hours a day to dedicate to language learning. This is honestly so refreshing because by the time I punch out, cook dinner, exercise, and do the dishes, it's 9PM, I'm mentally and physically drained from the day, and I get a good 1-2 hours of Korean study *barely*. I always feel so behind comparing myself to people with a lot more structurable time.. I am really trying to maximize my time this year and keep my big study binges for weekends when I have the extra energy to spare.
This year I have given birth to my first child, which has had a huge impact on everything. My original plan was to reach N3 in Japanese and (passive) B2 in German, but I ended up taking a break from Japanese and only studying German on and off. Instead, I have fallen in love with Italian all over again and have made a ton of progress, which was totally unexpected. I am even considering studying for C1 next year.
I've really surprised myself on my own language learning goals this year. I was studying Korean for fun for a few years, but since moving to Korea, I've only felt really pressured to learn it (by both myself and others), and it's really turned me off to learning it. I've since taken a break from it. In that time, I've started learning other languages that I'd put on the back burner for one reason or another, and have found my motivation to be MUCH higher with Chinese and ASL. I know I will come back to Korean, because I really do love it, but I had forgotten that fun and joy with learning it. Your channel really makes me feel okay with the ups and downs of language learning and I really appreciate that 🥰
"People will come in and out of my life - This is the circle of life" I don't know why I suddenly got so emotional when you said this.... It is so true
The biggest thing I've learned from making yearly goals is that goals can change drastically over the course of a year haha. So even though every year I technically "fail" to achieve 100% of my goals, I still enjoy setting yearly goals because it's also really interesting to look back on what your past self really wanted to achieve. For the sake of actually achieving goals, though, I agree that setting goals in shorter periods is much more attainable.
The pandemic made it a big problem for balancing time. Working from home is very difficult and I used to go to classes where that’s where I did schools and go home and relax and learn. Now that my classes are in my personal room and space. I procrastinate a lot more and get behind and my studies with school overlap with language learning. It’s a rough time in 2020. I was able to learn some but I can’t wait til classes and places are opened
All my classes for my bachelors were online and I just graduated in October. The pandemic didn't change a lot in terms of my daily life. I'm realizing that maybe when I start my masters in January, I should set up an area of the house (like the basement) where I work on school work, and then come up stairs and work on language learning as if I was in a different space entirely. I don't know if it will work, but I struggle big time with procrastination and lack of mental energy.
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What a phenomenal video. Loved everything you said, I can totally relate. Keep it up!
I'm still a newbie language learner compared to you and still finding my feet with it, so I was really relieved to hear you say about habits over goals. I feel like so many polyglots push having a concrete goal and I've just never really jibed with that. My end goal is complete fluency, but I'd rather enjoy the journey to get there than beat myself up for not reaching X goal in however many months and make myself feel like a failure if I don't get there. I don't see how that's supposed to be encouraging, I'd rather feel like I'm chipping away at it through daily habits and keep my passion alive.
4 years ago I moved to Germany and meant to stay for a year, and well.... still here 😅. I never planned to start learning Irish this year but with free online courses and lockdown, I started! But yes my motivation changes all the time. I just stopped putting crazy pressure on myself and doing what I feel like.
7:35 is so true. I am surrounded by Cantonese people at work. Even though i still cant speak it, my listening skills have improved so much that i can understand what they say 70% of the time. Exposure to a language makes it easier and faster to pick it up.
Your comments about how the people you interact with affect your learning are so true. I realise now how lucky I was when I started learning Spanish to find my Spanish community really quickly - a small class of people around my age who all went to a bar after class to keep practising, a conversation club in a bar every week etc. With Italian I just haven’t found that same kind of connection with anyone and I really haven’t learned in the same way
I can not stress enough how much I LOVE your channel and all that you do for the language community. like, for real, I have been through everything you just said and honestly, I thought things were not working out because I was just stupid and everybody else was gifted, therefore I couldn't stop comparing myself. every time you upload a video, it's like you knew I was going through a hard phase... thank you so much for keeping things real and talking about these issues. god bless you. 💖warm hugs from brazil.
the whole habits over goals is such a great mindset! I noticed it myself as well, I had much smaller goals than u. But I found it hard to stick to it when it's a goal - smth so far off in the future "read a whole book in German", and things were working out much nicer when I had enough time and energy for reading a few pages twice a week. I had a much better feeling about the whole thing even thought I wasnt moving along faster with the book. also your point about time not equaling mental energy. thats so true, ive been working from home since march and i feel like i get done less than i would have last year around this time. even tho i finish work at 6-7 (much later than i would at the office), i dont have energy to sit down to do a german lesson/read. the only thing that i kept is watching tv shows in german on netflix (at least smth)
The mental energy point is so true. I love learning languages but it is genuinely so tiring some days. I have to really balance working out and work and kids with languages to make sure it doesn't suck all my energy!
Finding a good teacher online is so difficult! On italki, I usually enjoy classes with community tutors rather than the "professional" teachers. Most of my teachers have focused strictly on grammar and either teach material that's too difficult or too easy even after I have communicated my needs. I've learned that I prefer to study alone or in meaningful interactions with native speakers that adjust to my level.
At the start of 2020, I planned to spend 1hr on Korean and 1hr on Japanese. But that fell through very quickly. Now I’m just focusing on 30m of Japanese a day because something is better than nothing.
Congratulations on your boyfriend! I rang in 2020 with my wife's family in South Korea, and decided to make learning Korean a focus this year. I was anticipating a grand 2020 as an "annus mirabilis." You're right: the pandemic messed with everybody's plans. Working from home drained energy from language studies. I ended up spending more time (re-)learning Spanish than studying Korean. Other hobbies (Toastmasters, bicycling) took time away from language studies. Etc., etc. Thank you for the lessons. I will apply them to my language studies, and life.
This year I decided to take Japanese more seriously, I studied it daily for 1 hour since 1st January 2020. I'm proud to say that I have improved a lot and I am currently doing N3😁 I also started learning Brazilian Portuguese on 24th July 2020 and it's going well, but idk why I'm learning it anyway. I also decided to start learning Korean *again* on 19th August. My Korean is going pretty well and I'm glad! But since September I guess, it's so exhausting to study, it's my last year of highschool anyway so I'm quite busy. Also I never feel like studying from September-December😩😂 Anyways-
Congratulations on your big life news! It is so wonderful that God prepared the way with you already starting to learn Tagalog before you even met your boyfriend and how sweet that your boyfriend is learning Afrikaans as a way to share more fully in your life.
OMG!!! Your nails look really nice. I love em. You inspire me to learn Korean too. I have HSK level 3 in Chinese now and I love I will soon be able to move on to Korean.
I started seriously learning French this year and I can honestly say watching your videos has really helped boost my motivation when it dipped low! I'm not near as far as I would have hoped but I've made a great friend in my tutor and I'm proud of how far I've come along.
Thanks for making this video! One of my favorite recent ones. And the advice on habits vs goals and hobbies outside of languages are great languages and breaking the year apart. All this will help all us Lindie. Thanks for being a great language advisor for all us 😇 very successful
In regards to your teacher over correcting you, that immediately made me think of my driving instructor. I'm finally getting around to learning and when I drive with my dad it's mostly enjoyable and I'm pretty confident driving around town with him. But when I got around to doing proper lessons the instructor would call out every single last mistake, not matter how minor, and it honestly made me not wanna drive for a little bit. I was coming out of the classes feeling like I couldn't actually drive well when just the day before I was driving all over the city with my dad and feeling entirely at ease and confident.
As I’m a beginner learning just Japanese at the moment, I’m focusing on very small time frames e.g. a week, a month and at most 3 months for my language learning goals and because I’m using memrise I’m able to make very tangible goals like I want to finish each of the courses. I don’t know how it will change as I become more advanced and I finish all of the memrise courses but I’m excited to see where it goes.
I am majoring at Japanese and I am learning other 4 languages at the moment. I can recommend you to get some books. For me Minna no nihongo and Japanese for busy people are total gem. Also Dictionary of basic japanese grammar is great for grammar studies. And for improving the language you can watch a lot of videos on ytb, watch japanese series (you can watch anime, but anime Japanese is kinda different from the real Japanese) and listen to podcast.
Aw so happy for you to find someone that wants to learn your language! It’s a good sign! ❤️ still working on getting language friends, hopefully polyglot conference next year will help that too!
I recently picked up my chinese learning and begun using italki to improve in italian! Your channel is so inspiring and quite unique, as your priorities in language learning are much more holistic and natural than others. 您非常有才华。你的画得也很好!
I think 5 is time where things change. It is the number of languages that once exceeded, it is a lot easier to forget one by learning another one. I am at five now as well and I am finding new ways to learn. Like flashcards. I never used them before and I hated them but once you wanna go past five languages, you gots to do what you gots to do haha. May I ask which five you speak?
From what I hear, I think, you became more mature this year. Having more realistic goals and being more human regarding your language learning experience. So nice to hear, and I relate a lot with what you said :)
So happy to hear about your big life update ❤️❤️❤️ Enjoy the butterflies and I am sure you will be doing great learning your boyfriends language even better. Have a wonderful rest of the year and looking forward to seeing more videos in 2021 of yours.
Such a crazy year that taught us so much. I felt like "time does not equal mental energy" was directed to me lol. You thanked us but we also thank you for continuing to do youtube even though this year was so hectic. Love from Brazil 🇧🇷💜
People matter! I felt that. Not being on campus and now having a language group of people who I can use languages with this semester really has hurt my use, practice, and most noticeably I feel so much more insecure speaking than I used to
Well, I am very loyal and faithful when it comes to learn my second foreign language Spanish (my first foreign language is English, but I stopped learning that). This year I read two books in Spanish. So, I am more or less satisfied with my progress. But when it comes to my third foreign language I have a lot of on-off relationsships with French, Arabic or Russian. My plan was to put an end to this and I failed :D. I will try it next year again, I promise, really.
Love your content as always. As for myself, I'm starting to slowly dig out the parasite that I call doubt from my body and I actively started to speak more Russian with my wife. I'm very much self-deprecating but I decided to change it for the better. Heck, I'm even considering doing a review series for different Russian UA-cam educators on what kind of content, resources, and experience they offer. Something else that helped me was writing down what I achieved in regards to language learning and looked at my progress daily. It was somewhat like game, like "leveling up" if I had to use a phrase for it. So, that's my comment. Happy language learning to all, and stay safe!
What you say about mental energy and motivation really spoke to me... always an issue but particularly in these strange times. As they say in Yiddish, "a mensch trakht un Got lakht" - a person plans and god laughs.
I took a break from Spanish for years while concentrating on Portuguese, but in the end that made my Spanish that much better. Because of German, I can understand a lot of Dutch and by extention Afrikaans. That's awesome that you and your boyfriend are learning each other's languages. Finally, even bodybuilders need rest to let their muscles grow. It's the same with language learning.
In the middle of the pandemic, and after hitting rock bottom in some areas, I finally decided to return to French, after a six year hiatus. The experience of immersing myself in language learning has been a refreshing opportunity to forget briefly about the stress in my life. People like you have given me the inspiration to pursue this journey. One of my key takeaways of your videos is that I should cherish the journey of language learning, perhaps far more than the destination. The fact that my French shows, series and news outlets are still there, regardless of what happens in the world, is a true blessing in the middle of this pandemic.
Thank you soooooo much for this video... I've never been able to set up 12month goals and I never understood how other people achieve it, but your vid gives me "hope"😉 take care!
It's not time management, it's energy management that is the actual kicker! I did a little energy tracker, I'd just give myself a score out of 10 on a graph tracking my waking hours, it had really interesting results! Hadn't realised how much food affects energy.
Wahh it's so cool that you've learning Tagalog! Huwag sumuko! Madaming mga magagandang pelikula sa Netflix na maaaring makatulong sa'yo :) Good luck!! Halos walong buwan na ako nag-aaral ng Korean, at salamat sa inspirasyon na binibigay mo sa akin palagi
This video was exactly what I needed! I'm planning to go back at studying languages and also follow some new hobbies, but in my life I always struggled a lot with setting goals, they make my anxiety even worse and I end beating myself up all the time. In the past couple of months I also understood that I have to prioritize habits instead of (sometimes impossible) goals. Whatching your video and hearing you talking about this same thoughts REALLY helped me, I feel so motivated thanks to you right now! Thank you so much for sharing your journey, you are amazing! :)
Your videos are so inspiring! This year has been crazy for me too. I was planning on starting Japanese and German and getting my C1 on Catalan, but everything got really hard and I wasn't able to focus on anything. Japanese is so difficult, but so fun... And it makes me think that German is actually quite easy because I can, at least, read it out loud! Hahaha Thank you for your videos and I wish you a great 2021!
I think it is important to track how we feel about things, cause to me it's crazy how our mindset does change as we grow up and what we do and don't get interested in!
I totally agree with U , especially when you said we should focus on habits and systems instead of the goal itself (sorry for my English, I'm learning it) One of my 2021 goals is learning French so I'll divide my study plan in 3 months as you said. Thank U a million for this video😍
i know i don't comment that much.. but I just wanna say that you're the only "language-learning UA-camr" that I've consistently watched and enjoyed.. your videos are just the best and I never leave a video feeling like I didn't learn something from you... you're great! love from south africa :))
I remember when you posted an IG story in Tagalog, you wrote a sentence in tagalog about your 'nobyo'. Hahaha. So cute!!! Thank you for making these kind of videos! So encouraging! 🤗
Wow, it's an impressive combo! I don't want this to sound strange, but as a Polish person obsessed with languages I am impressed you picked up my language! If you're still learning it, powodzenia i dobrej zabawy!
So happy to hear about your new life developments! If you ever have the time, I would love to see a tagalog resource/ study video because I'm also trying to learn it! 💖 sending good vibes from NYC :)
That was so cute how you both are just happening to be learning each other's native languages. I definitely agree that planning doesn't really work but it is better to have smaller goals set but not as a set thing like levels etc.
Thank you for the video Lindie! I just started to learn Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean and Japanese and listening to you... and just finding myself in the same situations as you described. Thank you for the tips and for sharing your experience! I recommended your channel for different native speakers as well as for English teachers. Greetings from Hungary. Your language skills are so excellent! :)
Time does not equall mental energy Here's my take on that, I learned it the hard way, I thought that since I had a lot of time working from home I could register in all the courses of the semester + 1, besides that my full time job, I didn't do great at work and procrastinated a lot college assignments. Mid year I asked for an unpaid month leave because I really needed a break and here I am, at the start of my break reevaluating everything I was doing.
I must happily admit that your videos really helped me with my language learning path. Unfortunately, I discovered you and your videos just a few months ago but even with such a short amount of time, I was motivated by you to pick back up my French, from High school, and even start learning Chinese. Thank you so much for this, you make such amazing content which makes me always work harder. I would be even happier if I could find more videos about Chinese on your channel. :)
There were many ups and downs this year in my Korean learning journey. I registered for TOPIK II (which I should have taken in May, but ended up taking in October). I had trouble staying motivated but I discovered last Friday that I passed the test (3급) which was my goal for this first try. Now I'd like to pass level 4, I'll have to work a lot more in order to make it :-)
I started the year with just one goal - to try to learn Chinese every day, and now my streak on Memrise is 327 days (I'm going for 365!), then this October I joined Indonesian A1 class and even had time for Korean practice every few weeks. I feel like this year has been great in terms of language learning but I never learned 2 languages at the same time this is why I came to your channel for motivation and some tips :) btw - if you are still interested in Indonesian - there's a free Zoom course organized by the Indonesian embassy, it's just 1 hour per week so it's not very time-consuming. We're currently in the middle of it but I'm sure next year they'll start again :)
omg! im filipino-canadian but ive never been able to speak tagalog. when i saw on twitter that you were starting to learn, it made me really motivated to want to start too :) loved this video & congrats on an exciting life update!
I started with Czech in March, I thought that it would be easy to learn during Lockdown. I had motivation problems as well. A surprise was Hungarian. I live in Vienna and many Hungarians live here. I found very nice people, speaking partners. Other slavic languages were also on my plans but my Italian friends helped me to become a better cook and a better Italian speaker!
Yay Tagalog! Congrats. I stopped learning Italian after 2 years to focus on Russian because I got a girlfriend. Then I stopped learning Russian after 8 months because we broke up and I lost all motivation. However, I returned to Spanish and was going to stop because I was comfortable at my B1+. But then I discovered Élite (through Season 1) and I want to study all the slang expressions to understand everyone. I've also gone back to listening to German in preparation to converse work my other friend when we exercise. It will take at least 3 months to get confident to speak, but it's my only language plan for now.
What an amazing video!! I am a painter as well so this was really inspiring to see ✨ I find your limited color palettes interesting as well! Pink, orange, blue ... pretty 💓
A great motivating video as usual! Good luck with Tagalog and Hungarian (etc) in 2021 😁 I don't expect anyone to read the below but it was helpful to think about it & review, so thanks Lindie! - - - - For me in 2020 I learnt more business Japanese from work and got more advanced at reading, typing and listening (I highly recommend " シノブとナルミの毒舌アメリカンライフ" which a chat podcast by 2 funny Japanese women living in Texas), but my spoken Japanese level (because I haven't done much) plummeted :( Also I didn't do any Mandarin until October/November which was lazy. For 2021, at least the first half while still at home because of restrictions, I aim to go from zero to become comfortable at basic Spanish conversation, and get back into the swing of Mandarin! And keep French and Japanese on maintenance 😁 Good luck everyone!
I agree that goals are hard to maintain, priority and life changes, but I still find it to be enjoyable to plan and write what I would like to accomplish, what my interests are, and later look back and see how things changed, what I did manage to accomplish. The act of setting goals is also motivating to me, even if I don’t manage to keep up with them all in the long run.
My Spanish learning plan went out the window the past 4 months. Some days I barely touched it or didn’t do anything. With all the anxiety around my job in healthcare during COVID, my mental energy was gone by the time I tried to start studying. So I stopped studying. Instead I read a short article or listened to a short podcast. When I felt like grammar session, I studied. This year to too stressful to hold ourselves to a hard timeline.
This is so true ! Thanks for your input on this. You need a goal and tranform it into habits then enhance the habits every time you need to. That is the only way to make all of it works.
congrats on the BF! i'm so excited for you! being stopped after every word- i think you explained it well. this was literally my korean teacher! i'd volunteer in class but he'd stop me/others after 1-3 words and point out the mistake. i just kind of stopped volunteering after a while. so i know a lot of grammar but cannot use it cause i didn't want to practice and use it.
This was so insightful, thank you! I started seriously self-studying Spanish this year (it was the only thing my brain could focus on for several months - my entire industry was shut down because of the pandemic). Now I have higher aspirations with my language learning, but I'm also starting a new job next year, so your tips on goal setting and managing time and energy are really helpful. Hello from the UK!
You're right about how people in one's life affect the language learning process. I chose Arabic because of the interesting people I've met with ties to the language, besides it being a personal challenge. And I'm happy that you met someone who makes you blush so much, it's been a while since I've seen anyone genuinely have that look you had when you spoke about him. All the best!
omg I've been watching your channel for a while and I got the SHOCK of my life when you mentioned you're in Singapore! that is so cool hope you're enjoying this city! I would love to see how your life is in Singapore now :-D
I agree so much with the part of time is not equal to energy! My energy levels have fluctuated a lot, a few months ago I was studying german a lot and now I'm doing like the bare minimum, but as you say, I've learned to kind to myself.
"Why even plan when we live in a pandemic" 😂😂 so accurate! I kind of ended up in Spain which has never been my plan haha (im also doing language related videos in case anybody is interested😇)
LOL. I did say "plan" and not "learn", but honestly, that is a whole mood 😂
@@LindieBotes my fault!! Haha, just corrected it :D
😂😂😂😂I was think she will say why even plan when we live in2020😂😂
Spain is amazing, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did when I lived there!!
@@Somatic.Artistry I love it! While it was never planned it was the best spontaneous decision of my life haha
"Time does not equal mental energy" - YESS, I am learning this too and trying to figure out how I can organize my day so I have enough energy to complete my goals. Thanks for sharing!!
This sentence it's explain why sometimes we don't want to study even we have time
I start thinking about how to keep motivated
I felt this today. I want to study for Uni and revise my chinese lessons and edit a UA-cam video and so on but my brain was like " bruuuuhhhh!!!! CHILL!" haha.
YES ABOUT BEING STOPPED AFTER EVERY WORD I think that is a big reason why people that just learn in schools are so repulsed by them, and say that they are bad at them.
Correcting mistakes all the time is a horrible way to teach a language. It's better to do that in review or at least suggesting another way to say something.
When you said "time does not equal mental energy for language learning" I FELT THAT. Great video! :)
Yes, I’ve had to deal with lots of exhaustion, particularly mental.
Yea it's really explain why we don't study even we have time 😅
@@melekpolyglot5387 You can still study even if you're all out of mental energy. You just have to stop trying too hard. Put away your textbook, play some nice movie or something and relax. You're still learning that way.
@@nextghost yea you are right .thank you 😄
This year I wasn't even planning on starting to study languages, but here I am, studying English since the quarantine start, and now starting with Korean
That's great keep going
@@melekpolyglot5387 I will, now I love languages 😍❤️
@@minlissette5920 good luck😄🙏
Keep it up, and good luck!
your english is great! keep working hard 💕
My goals didn't go anything as I planned 😂😂
Also Congrats on your relationship, he sounds like a sweetheart❤
I think "time does not equal mental energy" is what I needed to hear for a while thank you
Yea that's explain why we can't study sometimes even we have time 😅
I don't know why, but when you said that you're in a relationship, you made me so happy. I hope it'll work. Love you from Kosovo🇽🇰❤️💎♾✨
That was a surprise that he’s from Philippines. Filipino people can be very caring and sweet. 😍 awww... happy for you!
I appreciate your honesty, it's always important to show to learners that multilingual people are also normal people.
Honestly, trying to get better in so many languages in just 1 year is unrealistic, with Covid or without it.
I like to see you have learnt a lot from this and thanks for sharing those lessons with us.
Wish you the best~~
Yes I agree with you
Omg I love your channel
my plan has always been no plan.
stick to this one and you'll always make it.
this year was a total success.
I'm really interested seeing in your progress in Tagalog. I hope you make a video on it soon. Not trying to pressure you though haha
💕 such great points! 💕 "Time does not equal mental energy". OOF. Felt that one in my soul. This coming year I would like to set more habits, and maybe less goals, too.
Also, 축하해용♡
Yes it's was really real that's way sometimes it's hard to do something even we have time
As for my language goals
My goals were
-get more advance in Japanese
-find great Japanese friends to practice with
-learn all basic French
-try out Arabic and Chinese
I did get good Japanese friends and my Japanese level did get better.
I got most of basic French but not all of it
I tried Arabic and Chinese and had a lot of fun though didn’t get high level due to pandemic reasons.
So overall successful year and glad your year was too :)
That's wonderful, thanks for sharing your goals and progress!
@@LindieBotes thanks for the reply. Big fan of this channel. Helped me and motivated me and lots of people to learn languages 😃
Wow great job. I am Arabic native speaker you can make goal for this year makeing arab friend I am here😅😂
@@melekpolyglot5387 oh yes I have arab friends and I’ll gladly enjoy chatting:)
1. Congrats on getting a boyfriend ! 😊😊😊😊
2 .Your point on mental energy was on point (no pun intended , sorry). I planned to read like almost a book per day because my college admissions are going on and I have a lot of free time , but I soon realised that nah , not gonna happen. I am now doing it slowly and trying not to burn out ... so , highly accurate point.
Oh my god a person who works 10-7! Finally a video featuring someone with the same mentally draining work schedule who doesn't have 24 hours a day to dedicate to language learning. This is honestly so refreshing because by the time I punch out, cook dinner, exercise, and do the dishes, it's 9PM, I'm mentally and physically drained from the day, and I get a good 1-2 hours of Korean study *barely*. I always feel so behind comparing myself to people with a lot more structurable time.. I am really trying to maximize my time this year and keep my big study binges for weekends when I have the extra energy to spare.
This year I have given birth to my first child, which has had a huge impact on everything. My original plan was to reach N3 in Japanese and (passive) B2 in German, but I ended up taking a break from Japanese and only studying German on and off. Instead, I have fallen in love with Italian all over again and have made a ton of progress, which was totally unexpected. I am even considering studying for C1 next year.
Grats on your kid! Life is wonderful!
I've really surprised myself on my own language learning goals this year. I was studying Korean for fun for a few years, but since moving to Korea, I've only felt really pressured to learn it (by both myself and others), and it's really turned me off to learning it. I've since taken a break from it. In that time, I've started learning other languages that I'd put on the back burner for one reason or another, and have found my motivation to be MUCH higher with Chinese and ASL. I know I will come back to Korean, because I really do love it, but I had forgotten that fun and joy with learning it. Your channel really makes me feel okay with the ups and downs of language learning and I really appreciate that 🥰
"People will come in and out of my life - This is the circle of life"
I don't know why I suddenly got so emotional when you said this.... It is so true
The biggest thing I've learned from making yearly goals is that goals can change drastically over the course of a year haha. So even though every year I technically "fail" to achieve 100% of my goals, I still enjoy setting yearly goals because it's also really interesting to look back on what your past self really wanted to achieve. For the sake of actually achieving goals, though, I agree that setting goals in shorter periods is much more attainable.
The pandemic made it a big problem for balancing time. Working from home is very difficult and I used to go to classes where that’s where I did schools and go home and relax and learn. Now that my classes are in my personal room and space. I procrastinate a lot more and get behind and my studies with school overlap with language learning. It’s a rough time in 2020. I was able to learn some but I can’t wait til classes and places are opened
All my classes for my bachelors were online and I just graduated in October. The pandemic didn't change a lot in terms of my daily life. I'm realizing that maybe when I start my masters in January, I should set up an area of the house (like the basement) where I work on school work, and then come up stairs and work on language learning as if I was in a different space entirely. I don't know if it will work, but I struggle big time with procrastination and lack of mental energy.
What a phenomenal video. Loved everything you said, I can totally relate. Keep it up!
Woow, woow, you speak Italian. I always wanted to subscribe to a language learner learning Italian.
I'm still a newbie language learner compared to you and still finding my feet with it, so I was really relieved to hear you say about habits over goals. I feel like so many polyglots push having a concrete goal and I've just never really jibed with that. My end goal is complete fluency, but I'd rather enjoy the journey to get there than beat myself up for not reaching X goal in however many months and make myself feel like a failure if I don't get there. I don't see how that's supposed to be encouraging, I'd rather feel like I'm chipping away at it through daily habits and keep my passion alive.
4 years ago I moved to Germany and meant to stay for a year, and well.... still here 😅. I never planned to start learning Irish this year but with free online courses and lockdown, I started! But yes my motivation changes all the time. I just stopped putting crazy pressure on myself and doing what I feel like.
Do you like Germany?
7:35 is so true. I am surrounded by Cantonese people at work. Even though i still cant speak it, my listening skills have improved so much that i can understand what they say 70% of the time. Exposure to a language makes it easier and faster to pick it up.
Your comments about how the people you interact with affect your learning are so true. I realise now how lucky I was when I started learning Spanish to find my Spanish community really quickly - a small class of people around my age who all went to a bar after class to keep practising, a conversation club in a bar every week etc. With Italian I just haven’t found that same kind of connection with anyone and I really haven’t learned in the same way
I can not stress enough how much I LOVE your channel and all that you do for the language community. like, for real, I have been through everything you just said and honestly, I thought things were not working out because I was just stupid and everybody else was gifted, therefore I couldn't stop comparing myself. every time you upload a video, it's like you knew I was going through a hard phase... thank you so much for keeping things real and talking about these issues. god bless you. 💖warm hugs from brazil.
I really like the idea of.. Not having a lofty goal with a language but rather implement language learning as a regular routine!!
I’ve seen other productivity gurus talk about 3 month “Sprints” goal making. For that exact reason. Because things adapt every 3 months.
6:12 omg would u ever include him in ur videos? I'm so happy for u 🥺💖
the whole habits over goals is such a great mindset! I noticed it myself as well, I had much smaller goals than u. But I found it hard to stick to it when it's a goal - smth so far off in the future "read a whole book in German", and things were working out much nicer when I had enough time and energy for reading a few pages twice a week. I had a much better feeling about the whole thing even thought I wasnt moving along faster with the book.
also your point about time not equaling mental energy. thats so true, ive been working from home since march and i feel like i get done less than i would have last year around this time. even tho i finish work at 6-7 (much later than i would at the office), i dont have energy to sit down to do a german lesson/read. the only thing that i kept is watching tv shows in german on netflix (at least smth)
The mental energy point is so true. I love learning languages but it is genuinely so tiring some days. I have to really balance working out and work and kids with languages to make sure it doesn't suck all my energy!
Finding a good teacher online is so difficult! On italki, I usually enjoy classes with community tutors rather than the "professional" teachers. Most of my teachers have focused strictly on grammar and either teach material that's too difficult or too easy even after I have communicated my needs. I've learned that I prefer to study alone or in meaningful interactions with native speakers that adjust to my level.
At the start of 2020, I planned to spend 1hr on Korean and 1hr on Japanese. But that fell through very quickly. Now I’m just focusing on 30m of Japanese a day because something is better than nothing.
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@@justin02905 bruh i had to look up what that means XD
30 minutes every day of language learning is still fantastic. Great job!
@@rel4998 Thank you! I'm up to an hour of Japanese now.
@@kat_04 how awesome! I bet you've learned so much this past year!
Congratulations on your boyfriend! I rang in 2020 with my wife's family in South Korea, and decided to make learning Korean a focus this year. I was anticipating a grand 2020 as an "annus mirabilis." You're right: the pandemic messed with everybody's plans. Working from home drained energy from language studies. I ended up spending more time (re-)learning Spanish than studying Korean. Other hobbies (Toastmasters, bicycling) took time away from language studies. Etc., etc. Thank you for the lessons. I will apply them to my language studies, and life.
This year I decided to take Japanese more seriously, I studied it daily for 1 hour since 1st January 2020. I'm proud to say that I have improved a lot and I am currently doing N3😁
I also started learning Brazilian Portuguese on 24th July 2020 and it's going well, but idk why I'm learning it anyway.
I also decided to start learning Korean *again* on 19th August. My Korean is going pretty well and I'm glad!
But since September I guess, it's so exhausting to study, it's my last year of highschool anyway so I'm quite busy. Also I never feel like studying from September-December😩😂
Anyways-
Cheers bud
Bro I feel you not the "autumn-depression" 😪
Lindie is getting more and more beautiful every year
Congratulations on your big life news! It is so wonderful that God prepared the way with you already starting to learn Tagalog before you even met your boyfriend and how sweet that your boyfriend is learning Afrikaans as a way to share more fully in your life.
OMG!!! Your nails look really nice. I love em. You inspire me to learn Korean too. I have HSK level 3 in Chinese now and I love I will soon be able to move on to Korean.
I started seriously learning French this year and I can honestly say watching your videos has really helped boost my motivation when it dipped low! I'm not near as far as I would have hoped but I've made a great friend in my tutor and I'm proud of how far I've come along.
Thanks for making this video! One of my favorite recent ones. And the advice on habits vs goals and hobbies outside of languages are great languages and breaking the year apart. All this will help all us Lindie. Thanks for being a great language advisor for all us 😇 very successful
In regards to your teacher over correcting you, that immediately made me think of my driving instructor. I'm finally getting around to learning and when I drive with my dad it's mostly enjoyable and I'm pretty confident driving around town with him. But when I got around to doing proper lessons the instructor would call out every single last mistake, not matter how minor, and it honestly made me not wanna drive for a little bit. I was coming out of the classes feeling like I couldn't actually drive well when just the day before I was driving all over the city with my dad and feeling entirely at ease and confident.
As I’m a beginner learning just Japanese at the moment, I’m focusing on very small time frames e.g. a week, a month and at most 3 months for my language learning goals and because I’m using memrise I’m able to make very tangible goals like I want to finish each of the courses. I don’t know how it will change as I become more advanced and I finish all of the memrise courses but I’m excited to see where it goes.
I am majoring at Japanese and I am learning other 4 languages at the moment. I can recommend you to get some books. For me Minna no nihongo and Japanese for busy people are total gem. Also Dictionary of basic japanese grammar is great for grammar studies. And for improving the language you can watch a lot of videos on ytb, watch japanese series (you can watch anime, but anime Japanese is kinda different from the real Japanese) and listen to podcast.
So how did it go?
Aw so happy for you to find someone that wants to learn your language! It’s a good sign! ❤️ still working on getting language friends, hopefully polyglot conference next year will help that too!
I recently picked up my chinese learning and begun using italki to improve in italian! Your channel is so inspiring and quite unique, as your priorities in language learning are much more holistic and natural than others. 您非常有才华。你的画得也很好!
I speak 5 and i am here to see what i should know before starting to learn the next one... 😂
I'm literally stopping myself to add new leanguage 😭😂😂
@@melekpolyglot5387 hahaha life is hard...
@@melekpolyglot5387 samee
I think 5 is time where things change. It is the number of languages that once exceeded, it is a lot easier to forget one by learning another one. I am at five now as well and I am finding new ways to learn. Like flashcards. I never used them before and I hated them but once you wanna go past five languages, you gots to do what you gots to do haha. May I ask which five you speak?
Delighted to see you so upbeat and happy! I look forward to watching your continuing progress through the world's languages in 2021 :)
From what I hear, I think, you became more mature this year. Having more realistic goals and being more human regarding your language learning experience. So nice to hear, and I relate a lot with what you said :)
So happy to hear about your big life update ❤️❤️❤️ Enjoy the butterflies and I am sure you will be doing great learning your boyfriends language even better. Have a wonderful rest of the year and looking forward to seeing more videos in 2021 of yours.
Such a crazy year that taught us so much. I felt like "time does not equal mental energy" was directed to me lol. You thanked us but we also thank you for continuing to do youtube even though this year was so hectic. Love from Brazil 🇧🇷💜
People matter! I felt that. Not being on campus and now having a language group of people who I can use languages with this semester really has hurt my use, practice, and most noticeably I feel so much more insecure speaking than I used to
Well, I am very loyal and faithful when it comes to learn my second foreign language Spanish (my first foreign language is English, but I stopped learning that). This year I read two books in Spanish. So, I am more or less satisfied with my progress.
But when it comes to my third foreign language I have a lot of on-off relationsships with French, Arabic or Russian. My plan was to put an end to this and I failed :D.
I will try it next year again, I promise, really.
Love your content as always. As for myself, I'm starting to slowly dig out the parasite that I call doubt from my body and I actively started to speak more Russian with my wife. I'm very much self-deprecating but I decided to change it for the better. Heck, I'm even considering doing a review series for different Russian UA-cam educators on what kind of content, resources, and experience they offer. Something else that helped me was writing down what I achieved in regards to language learning and looked at my progress daily. It was somewhat like game, like "leveling up" if I had to use a phrase for it. So, that's my comment. Happy language learning to all, and stay safe!
What you say about mental energy and motivation really spoke to me... always an issue but particularly in these strange times. As they say in Yiddish, "a mensch trakht un Got lakht" - a person plans and god laughs.
I took a break from Spanish for years while concentrating on Portuguese, but in the end that made my Spanish that much better. Because of German, I can understand a lot of Dutch and by extention Afrikaans. That's awesome that you and your boyfriend are learning each other's languages. Finally, even bodybuilders need rest to let their muscles grow. It's the same with language learning.
In the middle of the pandemic, and after hitting rock bottom in some areas, I finally decided to return to French, after a six year hiatus. The experience of immersing myself in language learning has been a refreshing opportunity to forget briefly about the stress in my life. People like you have given me the inspiration to pursue this journey. One of my key takeaways of your videos is that I should cherish the journey of language learning, perhaps far more than the destination. The fact that my French shows, series and news outlets are still there, regardless of what happens in the world, is a true blessing in the middle of this pandemic.
Thank you soooooo much for this video... I've never been able to set up 12month goals and I never understood how other people achieve it, but your vid gives me "hope"😉 take care!
I'm so glad to hear that! Wishing you all the best 💚
It's not time management, it's energy management that is the actual kicker!
I did a little energy tracker, I'd just give myself a score out of 10 on a graph tracking my waking hours, it had really interesting results! Hadn't realised how much food affects energy.
That's an important point! I changed my diet this year. Not for weight loss but for more energy!
Wahh it's so cool that you've learning Tagalog! Huwag sumuko! Madaming mga magagandang pelikula sa Netflix na maaaring makatulong sa'yo :) Good luck!! Halos walong buwan na ako nag-aaral ng Korean, at salamat sa inspirasyon na binibigay mo sa akin palagi
This video was exactly what I needed! I'm planning to go back at studying languages and also follow some new hobbies, but in my life I always struggled a lot with setting goals, they make my anxiety even worse and I end beating myself up all the time. In the past couple of months I also understood that I have to prioritize habits instead of (sometimes impossible) goals. Whatching your video and hearing you talking about this same thoughts REALLY helped me, I feel so motivated thanks to you right now! Thank you so much for sharing your journey, you are amazing! :)
Lindie, thank you for that!! what a great video... i've been understanding EXACTLY that: time does not equals energy.
Your videos are so inspiring! This year has been crazy for me too. I was planning on starting Japanese and German and getting my C1 on Catalan, but everything got really hard and I wasn't able to focus on anything. Japanese is so difficult, but so fun... And it makes me think that German is actually quite easy because I can, at least, read it out loud! Hahaha Thank you for your videos and I wish you a great 2021!
I think it is important to track how we feel about things, cause to me it's crazy how our mindset does change as we grow up and what we do and don't get interested in!
I totally agree with U , especially when you said we should focus on habits and systems instead of the goal itself (sorry for my English, I'm learning it) One of my 2021 goals is learning French so I'll divide my study plan in 3 months as you said. Thank U a million for this video😍
i know i don't comment that much.. but I just wanna say that you're the only "language-learning UA-camr" that I've consistently watched and enjoyed.. your videos are just the best and I never leave a video feeling like I didn't learn something from you... you're great! love from south africa :))
Wow your paintings were so adorable! Really a nice video that taught us a lot of things😊
I remember when you posted an IG story in Tagalog, you wrote a sentence in tagalog about your 'nobyo'. Hahaha. So cute!!! Thank you for making these kind of videos! So encouraging! 🤗
Great video! Thank you for sharing, Lindie, and making such excellent content for us!
I started the year learning Polish. I ended the year learning Greek. Spanish has been the constant in all of it.
Wow, it's an impressive combo! I don't want this to sound strange, but as a Polish person obsessed with languages I am impressed you picked up my language! If you're still learning it, powodzenia i dobrej zabawy!
So happy to hear about your new life developments! If you ever have the time, I would love to see a tagalog resource/ study video because I'm also trying to learn it! 💖 sending good vibes from NYC :)
That was so cute how you both are just happening to be learning each other's native languages. I definitely agree that planning doesn't really work but it is better to have smaller goals set but not as a set thing like levels etc.
Thank you for the video Lindie! I just started to learn Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean and Japanese and listening to you... and just finding myself in the same situations as you described. Thank you for the tips and for sharing your experience! I recommended your channel for different native speakers as well as for English teachers. Greetings from Hungary. Your language skills are so excellent! :)
Time does not equall mental energy
Here's my take on that, I learned it the hard way, I thought that since I had a lot of time working from home I could register in all the courses of the semester + 1, besides that my full time job, I didn't do great at work and procrastinated a lot college assignments. Mid year I asked for an unpaid month leave because I really needed a break and here I am, at the start of my break reevaluating everything I was doing.
Habits vs. goals. I love that! Thank you for sharing.
I must happily admit that your videos really helped me with my language learning path. Unfortunately, I discovered you and your videos just a few months ago but even with such a short amount of time, I was motivated by you to pick back up my French, from High school, and even start learning Chinese. Thank you so much for this, you make such amazing content which makes me always work harder. I would be even happier if I could find more videos about Chinese on your channel. :)
I love how happy you look
There were many ups and downs this year in my Korean learning journey. I registered for TOPIK II (which I should have taken in May, but ended up taking in October). I had trouble staying motivated but I discovered last Friday that I passed the test (3급) which was my goal for this first try. Now I'd like to pass level 4, I'll have to work a lot more in order to make it :-)
I started the year with just one goal - to try to learn Chinese every day, and now my streak on Memrise is 327 days (I'm going for 365!), then this October I joined Indonesian A1 class and even had time for Korean practice every few weeks. I feel like this year has been great in terms of language learning but I never learned 2 languages at the same time this is why I came to your channel for motivation and some tips :)
btw - if you are still interested in Indonesian - there's a free Zoom course organized by the Indonesian embassy, it's just 1 hour per week so it's not very time-consuming. We're currently in the middle of it but I'm sure next year they'll start again :)
Loved this relatable list!! Also your boyfriend is so nice to learn a language for you!! And you too!! Omg you two are so precious🥰🥰
I really liked the idea of focusing on habits rather than goals. It is very effective
omg! im filipino-canadian but ive never been able to speak tagalog. when i saw on twitter that you were starting to learn, it made me really motivated to want to start too :) loved this video & congrats on an exciting life update!
I started with Czech in March, I thought that it would be easy to learn during Lockdown. I had motivation problems as well. A surprise was Hungarian. I live in Vienna and many Hungarians live here. I found very nice people, speaking partners. Other slavic languages were also on my plans but my Italian friends helped me to become a better cook and a better Italian speaker!
I have to agree with you. Little goals at each 3 months are better than long term goals.
Filipino here! I am so glad you decided to learn tagalog! been following you for quite a while now! :) your videos helped me a lot learning Korean!
Loved your paititing, Lindie! They're so beautiful!
Yay Tagalog! Congrats.
I stopped learning Italian after 2 years to focus on Russian because I got a girlfriend. Then I stopped learning Russian after 8 months because we broke up and I lost all motivation.
However, I returned to Spanish and was going to stop because I was comfortable at my B1+. But then I discovered Élite (through Season 1) and I want to study all the slang expressions to understand everyone. I've also gone back to listening to German in preparation to converse work my other friend when we exercise. It will take at least 3 months to get confident to speak, but it's my only language plan for now.
What an amazing video!! I am a painter as well so this was really inspiring to see ✨ I find your limited color palettes interesting as well! Pink, orange, blue ... pretty 💓
On a side note, your paintings look so lovely!! 💕glad you can have another creative outlet 💕
A great motivating video as usual! Good luck with Tagalog and Hungarian (etc) in 2021 😁
I don't expect anyone to read the below but it was helpful to think about it & review, so thanks Lindie!
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For me in 2020 I learnt more business Japanese from work and got more advanced at reading, typing and listening (I highly recommend " シノブとナルミの毒舌アメリカンライフ" which a chat podcast by 2 funny Japanese women living in Texas), but my spoken Japanese level (because I haven't done much) plummeted :( Also I didn't do any Mandarin until October/November which was lazy.
For 2021, at least the first half while still at home because of restrictions, I aim to go from zero to become comfortable at basic Spanish conversation, and get back into the swing of Mandarin! And keep French and Japanese on maintenance 😁
Good luck everyone!
I agree that goals are hard to maintain, priority and life changes, but I still find it to be enjoyable to plan and write what I would like to accomplish, what my interests are, and later look back and see how things changed, what I did manage to accomplish. The act of setting goals is also motivating to me, even if I don’t manage to keep up with them all in the long run.
My Spanish learning plan went out the window the past 4 months. Some days I barely touched it or didn’t do anything. With all the anxiety around my job in healthcare during COVID, my mental energy was gone by the time I tried to start studying. So I stopped studying. Instead I read a short article or listened to a short podcast. When I felt like grammar session, I studied. This year to too stressful to hold ourselves to a hard timeline.
Thanks for such a great video, Lindie ! Btw, love your paintings !
This is so true ! Thanks for your input on this. You need a goal and tranform it into habits then enhance the habits every time you need to. That is the only way to make all of it works.
congrats on the BF! i'm so excited for you!
being stopped after every word- i think you explained it well. this was literally my korean teacher! i'd volunteer in class but he'd stop me/others after 1-3 words and point out the mistake. i just kind of stopped volunteering after a while. so i know a lot of grammar but cannot use it cause i didn't want to practice and use it.
This was so insightful, thank you! I started seriously self-studying Spanish this year (it was the only thing my brain could focus on for several months - my entire industry was shut down because of the pandemic). Now I have higher aspirations with my language learning, but I'm also starting a new job next year, so your tips on goal setting and managing time and energy are really helpful. Hello from the UK!
You're right about how people in one's life affect the language learning process. I chose Arabic because of the interesting people I've met with ties to the language, besides it being a personal challenge. And I'm happy that you met someone who makes you blush so much, it's been a while since I've seen anyone genuinely have that look you had when you spoke about him. All the best!
I am so glad that Lindie is learning my language!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Ang ganda mo ate Lindie 🥰🥰
Totally agree! what a crazy year, all of us around the world needed to change our plans and goals
omg I've been watching your channel for a while and I got the SHOCK of my life when you mentioned you're in Singapore! that is so cool hope you're enjoying this city! I would love to see how your life is in Singapore now :-D
I agree so much with the part of time is not equal to energy! My energy levels have fluctuated a lot, a few months ago I was studying german a lot and now I'm doing like the bare minimum, but as you say, I've learned to kind to myself.