Learning a new language is not just a simple thing that everyone can easily do. If you are eager to learn, take it as a part of your personal journey in life.

Why are you studying a new language?

Are you doing it for work? Is it a necessary skill for your career advancement? Do you foresee a need for it during an upcoming trip?

Whatever you reason, one thing is certain. The more personal you take your language education, the more effort you are likely to put into it. That’s why we always ask people to look beyond external motivations for learning and to turn their language efforts into a personal affair.

Instead of looking at language learning as something you do once a week (during class) or 15 minutes a day (with a software for language learning), begin treating it like a personal mission: one you’re bent on giving as much as you can on. Sure, you’ll do your requisite 15 minutes of lessons, but you need not stop there. Instead of spending the early evening watching three hours of TV, why not take 30 minutes from that to run through some vocabulary flash cards. How about picking up a book written in the target language and saving the next installment in the Twilight series for later?

Once you embrace language learning as a personal journey, it opens up many avenues for learning, some you didn’t even know were available to you. Try it. It just might be the edge you’re looking for in your language acquisition efforts.