Motivation and language learning

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I am in Spain and motivated to work on my Spanish. The 'bottom line" in language learning is motivation. All the rest is secondary.

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Education

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• motivation
• language
• learning
• spanish
• spain
• learn

[paige4president]

I vote Latin should be offered at LingQ. I have all these Latin books and I don't have time to go through them... but I am totally crazy about Latin for some reason. I don't think I'm the only one interested either. :)

[lingosteve]

One day Paige, one day. I cannot say when. Get you friends on LingQ. The more resources we have the sooner we can add new features and new languages. -:)

[zhongguohua88]

I completely agree with you. I am currently trying to learn many Chinese dialects like Shanghainese and the Chongqing dialect and whenever I talk to others about this interest, the typical response I get is "everybody in Mainland China can speak Mandarin, stop wasting your time". It seems to me that most people are learning a language to get a job and do not care about the culture behind it. This is probably why most of the books written about language learning are test oriented.

[lingosteve]

Good luck in your studies and thanks for letting me know that the other video on language learning and the brain did not load properly.

[CommodoreV]

Great video. Did you get your haircut in Portugal like you wanted?

[TheNonsubscribable]

@paige4president

I agree, latin should be brought to lingq

[TheDarkPan]

AWESOME "talking head" style video!

Reminded me of the good warm vibes in Spanish culture climate - which is like another PLANET compared to Scandinavia.

[daconmiked]

hi steve . just love your videos to death . i'm in the process learing portuguese with a great book called the berlitz self teacher and its very promising . i just visted the lingq and looks like a great way to learn languages . hope to see more languages avaibale soon . maybe one way we can get many more languages available is for people to donate to help fund more added languages . just an idea . take care and god bless you and what you do . you are an insperation to language lovers . peace

[mr007tycoon]

Nice video.

You are so right about having motivation or passion for the language you are trying to learn. For example, nothing beats love or a desire to have a boyfriend or girlfriend of a certain country/culture to motivate singles to learn a particular language.

[SummerKingdom]

Steve you are a smart man and a great teacher thanks for all your videos [=

[bigballa269]

I have to say good video but i disagree with you on statement about learning English, Spanish, and Chinese. It's a GREAT thing!! And its a great thing because it breaks down language barriers. If you know all three you can communicate with a lot of people, and if more people learn the languages, then that only encourages communication.

[17mathieu]

latin on lingq sounds like a great idea!

[zocurtis]

Obviously, I didn't watch this video before I made the comment. My bad lol.