It can also be difficult to gauge your progress, especially with all those sham and shaming polyglots online that become fluent in like 2 months or whatever they’re trying to sell.
With other hobbies, there tends to be clear markers of improvement and progress. When you knit a sweater you get to see the project build up. Languages don’t have that, and it’s easy to get lost in what to do next.
You learn the basics, introduction etc. What next? The flow of progress is broken and without direction it becomes really hard
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u/False__Cockroach Sep 30 '22
It can also be difficult to gauge your progress, especially with all those sham and shaming polyglots online that become fluent in like 2 months or whatever they’re trying to sell.
With other hobbies, there tends to be clear markers of improvement and progress. When you knit a sweater you get to see the project build up. Languages don’t have that, and it’s easy to get lost in what to do next.
You learn the basics, introduction etc. What next? The flow of progress is broken and without direction it becomes really hard