Reddit post: 10 years, 8 countires, 6 languages: What I've learned about learning languages
A great article with lots of advice about language learning. It closely matches my personal experience so far which will help to keep me motivated to continue with the way that I'm learning Russian. The main points that are covered in the article. So, here are the most important lessons I've learned: Think in ideas, not words "A mediocre workout done religiously outperforms a perfect workout never done" Going abroad is a force multiplier: if you're not making progress at home, you won't magically begin improving just because you uproot your life You'll overestimate how much you need to know to begin doing cool things in a language and underestimate the gap between that point and fluency You will learn as well as you need to learn to do what your lifestyle demands of you, no better or worse; if you’re stuck, light a fire somewhere Achieving fluency means you know one more language; you'll be the same person you are now, for better and worse, plus one
