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Been spending 4+ hours per day studying languages for the last year and a half. It started as a challenge to learn German, and now it's spiraled into going to

Been spending 4+ hours per day studying languages for the last year and a half. It started as a challenge to learn German, and now it's spiraled into going to polyglot conferences and doing "learning challenges". Right now, my main focus is on Swedish, but I've joined a 3-month language challenge, where I'm trying to learn as much of Inuktitut as I can. Since 2 weeks ago, I study most days on Twitch as personal motivation; I think most people would find this boring, but I've had a few people show up semi-regularly, so here's the link if that's something that floats your boat: https://www.twitch.tv/letsstudylanguages/ https://www.twitch.tv/letsstudylanguages/

dorchadas 7y ago
Come join us on Reddit r/languagelearning and on 'A Language Learners' Forum' [1] [1]https://forum.language-learners.org https://forum.language-learners.org
- neilvictorgrey 7y ago
  I spend a solid chunk of time on r/languagelearning haha :p... it's that curse of spending as much time talking about language learning as doing the actual studying :|. can find me under u/ninjarobotdino Thanks for the reminder re: language learners forum ... I was on there a year or two ago. I'll make sure to check it out again and try to stay active! :D The polyglot community is such a cool group of eclectic people.
person_of_color 7y ago
4 hours a day? How do you manage all your life sustaining activities after work?
- neilvictorgrey 7y ago
  I get up early and go to bed early. I have no energy after work, so I study in the morning from 4a-8a'ish. It took a little life-hacking to get used to, but I feel a lot more accomplished each day, before I even get into the nitty-gritty meetings and pushing code.
  - person_of_color 7y ago
    Guessing you're married with kids and have a relatively routine life after work then.
    - neilvictorgrey 7y ago
      Married. No kids. I usually go out with coworkers on Friday evenings and on Saturdays/Sundays I find myself at a local brewery or event with friends. Certainly not out drinking every night. There was definitely a conscious decision to prioritize this learning time and turn it into a routine. It also didn't happen all at once... it started at 45 min a day, then 90ish, etc.; I invested more as I saw the return on investment piling up. There's certainly days where I get little to no studying done and others where I get loads, but I try to get a minimum in. At the beginning, I'd mostly just got tired of telling myself "someday" and registered for a class. From there it's kinda snowballed. Once I found out there were other people doing this and that they had meetups and conferences, it was that much more motivating to spend time on.

dorchadas 7y ago

Come join us on Reddit r/languagelearning and on 'A Language Learners' Forum' [1] [1]https://forum.language-learners.org https://forum.language-learners.org

neilvictorgrey 7y ago
I spend a solid chunk of time on r/languagelearning haha :p... it's that curse of spending as much time talking about language learning as doing the actual studying :|. can find me under u/ninjarobotdino Thanks for the reminder re: language learners forum ... I was on there a year or two ago. I'll make sure to check it out again and try to stay active! :D The polyglot community is such a cool group of eclectic people.

person_of_color 7y ago

4 hours a day? How do you manage all your life sustaining activities after work?

neilvictorgrey 7y ago
I get up early and go to bed early. I have no energy after work, so I study in the morning from 4a-8a'ish. It took a little life-hacking to get used to, but I feel a lot more accomplished each day, before I even get into the nitty-gritty meetings and pushing code.
- person_of_color 7y ago
  Guessing you're married with kids and have a relatively routine life after work then.
  - neilvictorgrey 7y ago
    Married. No kids. I usually go out with coworkers on Friday evenings and on Saturdays/Sundays I find myself at a local brewery or event with friends. Certainly not out drinking every night. There was definitely a conscious decision to prioritize this learning time and turn it into a routine. It also didn't happen all at once... it started at 45 min a day, then 90ish, etc.; I invested more as I saw the return on investment piling up. There's certainly days where I get little to no studying done and others where I get loads, but I try to get a minimum in. At the beginning, I'd mostly just got tired of telling myself "someday" and registered for a class. From there it's kinda snowballed. Once I found out there were other people doing this and that they had meetups and conferences, it was that much more motivating to spend time on.