Bite-sized practice, drip-fed at regular intervals: perfect. I hear a ping, and get a little reading tester in any one of my languages. This is incredibly useful I now get regular snippets popping up on my phone in multiple languages. Next, I turned off notifications from English-language news apps, and turned on those in other languages. But this change-up could be useful I decided that overseas, foreign-language news sources would now be my first port of call.įirst, I shuffled my links and icons so that foreign sources ( like the excellent NRK app from Norway) were more accessible. Predictably, bad news fatigue prompted me to make a change-up in my life. Yes, I acknowledge that this can be an unhealthy addiction in current times! Under normal circumstances, I will be checking live UK news outlets multiple times a day. I can’t help it – I just love knowing what’s going on. Here are a couple of my own personal favourites for levering in the languages almost imperceptibly! Languages on Drip They are the kind of activities that work just as well for one or two languages as they do for handfuls of them at the same time – especially if you have both active and maintenance projects. Most importantly, they are dotted around, and embedded within you day. These tweaks, or displacements, help shift your focal centre to target language interactions with the media around you. It involves putting together a multilingual manifesto: a plethora of personal polyglot policies which create effortless exposure to language. Setting this environment up requires just a little initial planning. Create an environment in which you naturally bump up against foreign language material in the course of your day-to-day, even when not officially studying. But there’s a second, even simpler method for working this sage advice into your day: putting language in your path. These draw on the trusty old little but often approach. One antidote to this is to foster brief but very regular habits, or daily tactics. There is a place for that, of course, and many of us happily geek out over it.īut too much intensity will burn the shine off anything in the long run. The post reminded me that keeping up your languages isn’t about interminable formal study sessions, or filling all your spare moments with strict heads-down books-open calendar scheduling. There’s inspiration if ever you needed it! ![]() This week, I was living for the enthusiasm in this post on working eleven active language projects into daily life. I’m always inspired by the work of other polyglot learners.
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