Our brains respond easily to pictures, images, movies, and things that excite them. Visual cues are powerful! Especially for maintaining motivation and achieving goals.
Seeing the Future: Why You Should Practice Visualization
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Break it Down: How to Hone Your Language Skills Fast
Do you find yourself studying your target language for hours on end without making any progress? Using portioning and repeating can fix that.
Journaling as a Means to Promote Active Learning
How can journaling help you become a more effective learner? For one thing, it helps you understand yourself better. Your mind is your primary language learning tool, but we can be our own worst enemies, and that all starts in our head, so keeping tabs on it is important.
Turning Perfectionism Into a Strength
In an ideal world, we could travel to a foreign country and communicate with the natives effortlessly and flawlessly–no grammar mistakes, no contextual misunderstandings.
Setting Your Course
Does hearing the word “goal” outside of a soccer game make you start to sweat? You’re not alone.
Why You Should Skip Comparing
Comparison is a dangerous poison to the language learner–but it’s one that we’ve all gotten ourselves sick on.
Mindfulness
One of our most powerful tools in learning a language is being self-aware. When we talk about self-awareness and language learning, we’re talking about:
What Does Avoidance Look Like?
Have you ever heard of the fight or flight response? Chances are, you have. But we’ll explain it a little bit anyway: when faced with a threat, your natural instincts give you two options–fight or flight.
Stress Coping Strategies
Learning how to effectively cope with stress can help you stay in control of your language learning.