Top excuses not to learn a foreign language

And now seriously. We will talk about how to overcome the real and perceived barriers to ownership of one or more foreign languages ​​in the modern world. By the way, share the obstacles to real and imaginary, that is the objective, and the ones that exist only in your head, it is very important. If you just understand that almost all the obstacles will be unreal, invented, and many real obstacles that you expect to find, no longer relevant due to the development of technology. So there you go.

Foreign is not needed

Lovely self-deception. You are guaranteed to regret that thought so once. Most likely, you will regret it now, otherwise why are you reading this post?

What are the professions where knowledge of a foreign language, especially English, is well, quite unnecessary. Now ask yourself, do you want to work in these professions?

And even if you like your job and it seems that the foreign does not useful, do not be lazy to look similar to your job. But only where it is supposed to work with foreign clients and requires a good knowledge of English. Look immediately stops salaried. Yes, they pay more.

In practice, one familiar to us girl less than a year, raised the level of English from the ground up to the Pre-Intermediate, not straining and without prejudice to rest and leisure, then immediately found a job similar to his, but with twice as much salary. the costs of training paid off first salary.

Often, these jobs do not require specific skills. Businesses just really need people who are able to communicate and understand foreign clients.

Knowledge of foreign unique in that it allows you to discover new ways of life, not leaving the profession that you like. That is, you will remain a manager or a programmer, if you like, but only be able to work in companies at all other levels and for completely different money.

There is no single reason not to learn a foreign language, but there are obstacles. Those we talked about at the beginning. Real and perceived obstacles. And the most relevant among them - time.

No time

It is never enough, right? Do you think this is a real obstacle? An affirmative answer would have been a good ten years ago. In those days, you really have to spend time on trips to school or to a foreign courses. And then back again. It often happens that the timetable does not fit into your schedule. All these problems of outdated teaching methods, but who makes you learn the old way?

There is internet, which is available to you anywhere and everywhere. On a laptop, tablet and smartphone. By the Internet do not have to go, it does not need to wait. Generally ride a course of a foreign one to two times a week - this is the worst way to learn a language. For the next lesson you will forget everything that took place in the previous year. The key to success is to surround yourself with the foreign and study it every day. When online training or a minute not spent in vain, and all this time saved can be spent on daily study.

What to use for effective online learning? On Layfhakere about it dozens of articles. Use search. We want to highlight a service called Anki. It is available on all platforms, it can conveniently expand the vocabulary, using every free minute.

And then there is the torrent trackers (links you know, and we are opposed to piracy), which are hundreds of thousands of podcasts, movies and TV shows with the original soundtracks. This method of pumping the auditory perception can not help but like. You kind of look like an interesting TV series or movie, but at the same time more and learn to understand foreign speech. Simply switch the sound track.

Switch the language of the operating system on your computer and on your mobile studied. Do the same with the applications. And, of course, books. During an interview with a programmer guru he told us that English is pumped through a stubborn technical literature reading.

But that's not all. A rich vocabulary and a one-sided perception of speech and writing ≠ knowledge of the language. = To know the language to be able to communicate it. Here everything is more complicated, because the interlocutor is not a download on the Internet. But it can be found there. We already wrote about the service of selection of teachers, tutors and a buddy named italki. You can find a certified teacher of the language of the carrier to fit their needs and deal with them individually on Skype at a convenient time. Classes are bought individually or at once the course, which is cheaper, but in general the price is quite adequate.

Actually, here we are getting to the issue price. It is very important, especially in times of crisis, an excuse.

No money

About the above mentioned outdated system of education, we do not say. Group lessons are cheaper, but benefit from them at least. Individual teacher salaries and costs half to it still have to go. But the same personal teacher through Skype takes a completely different money. We go to the same italki and see how many requests per class professional teacher from the UK. About 500 rubles. In this case, it will first ask for what purpose you want to learn a foreign language, and make a personalized program. For information: it is very accessible. For more convincing look at the price tags Moscow tutors.

This low cost of online learning is due to the competition of teachers in service. In addition, when distributed payments for each individual activity on the budget blow is softened. Give three times a week to 500 rubles for individual high-quality training is psychologically easier than once several hundred dollars for a certain course, the effectiveness of which for you personally no one can guarantee.

e-learning problem is the cost does not seem so real with affordable prices. Of course, I want everything for free, but it does not happen. Break the miser in his head is not difficult, you just become aware of the useful output and return on investment of such costs in the future. Speaking of the future. Why do you learn the language?

no motivation

In your head there is good awareness of studying a foreign language. Money too. And time. But something inside still hinders you. Why? Where to get motivated? It is necessary to search for a specific purpose. Aimless language learning "for common development" is fraught with rapid throwing and switching to something else.

Give yourself a clear answer to the question: "Why do I need a foreign?". Most likely, for a career. This is a great motivator reliable, reasonable, having a very real exit benefit in cash. Perhaps you want to live in another country or just to travel independently communicating with the local population. Do not wait for the translation output for the series? Fine. Descend any reason, as long as you truly want it.

You can scare the scale of the planned, and that's fine. Learn a foreign - it is really a big deal. And any major problem has always crushed into smaller subtasks. It is easier to move and keep track of progress, keeping in mind the ultimate goal and the benefits that you will extract itself to the implementation of the plan.

To raise the spirit, you can refer to the experience of other people who have already experienced the advantages of online learning. We have dedicated this separate post and we recommend that you refer to it, when doubts about the advisability of continuing to study again creeps into your head.

Having learned only one language, you can change your life. Do not delay, start today.