Comments on: 5 ways to keep yourself motivated

By: eleena

eleena — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:38:15 +0000

Jeff,
That’s an EXCELLENT way to cross train the brain, using Spanish as your pathway to Portuguese, instead of relying on the English, which would be the conventional way since that is your first language. Your suggestion is particularly relevant to advanced students up for a challenge. Thanks for sharing this!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:16:54 +0000

Two websites that I really enjoy are livemocha.com and edufire.com

They really help with my personal learning style, especially since I am trying to complement my Spanish studies with learning Portuguese. I now use Spanish, instead of English, as my medium to learn Portuguese, so I am really improving my Spanish while I get a good grasp of Portuguese.

Other than that, I try as much as possible to meet up with or at least talk to intercambios since my oral Spanish skills are not quite where I’d like them to be.

By: eleena

eleena — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:12:16 +0000

Cool! Happy to hear that, Jessica!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:52:26 +0000

Thanks for the article. I already see 3 ideas that I can start doing right away.

Just the other day I was lamenting to my husband, asking him if I will ever be bilingual. And he asked me if I’m challenging myself enough and to think about what more I could do.

I’m teaching my children Spanish to the best of my ability. But my goal for them is to be bilingual. Doing these ideas will help me to step up my language learning, so we don’t get stagnant.

By: eleena

eleena — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:20:16 +0000

Ryan,
For me, make that time AND money already invested.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:16:16 +0000

One of the things I do is remind myself of all of the time that I’ve already invested. If I don’t get to at least a certain level of mastery then all of that time, effort and money will have been an absolute waste of time. I also try to make friends in the language who don’t speak much English.