I've had a firm plan for a few years now to be able to speak Russian one day. This plan works as follows: I bookmarked the language learning book in chapter 4 - I haven't got any further yet - and it's been there for six months now. I wish I was motivated.
Maybe you need an accountability buddy, a fellow learner. Well idk I've never tried it but just a thought.
Good idea. Sadly, the number of people my age who want to learn a new language - especially Russian, not quite the most famous language in Germany these days - is limited.
You might like reading the book Atomic Habits before putting any effort on language learning, it has, in fact, nothing to do with language learning, but it can help you find the time to commit to language learning and not necessarily rely on motivation.
Thank you, I had not heard of that book before.
This is kinda how I started my language learning journey as well, but realized after a year of no progress that I need a structured course to truly get that motivation and progress.
If you have a possibility to take a course somewhere in your town I highly recommend! Might meet new people and have fun too! :)
It's going, somwhere. Still looking for a good replacement for Duolingo for Korean. Tried Busuu, but it's also kind of bad, it's using the latin alphabet for way too long.
Yeah I haven't found another fun replacement for Duolingo. The FOSS project "LibreLingo" has been abandoned long time ago too..
I wonder if https://lingory.net/ would be a viable option? I have no experience with the language or app, I just remember seeing it mentioned in this article.
Recently decided to bite the bullet and use the book Remembering The Kanji for my Japanese learning plan, it's good, I feel like I'm making great progress so far, I'm only around 10% in but that's not too bad for less than 2 weeks.
I resisted picking up RTK for a long time too, and I don't really know why. Heisig's method is great!
If you aren't already using it, https://www.kanji.koohii.com/ is a great companion app for managing flashcards based on the book.
Oh, I've been fighting the need to use Remembering The Kanji since 2016, I thought having to memorize thousands of mnemonics plus thousands of characters, plus radicals wasn't a smart way of studying, but boy, how wrong I was!
I am already using kanji.koohi! Most of the mnemonics I'm using come from there, the community have came up with some great ones across the years.
