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Just Get On With Your Learning

Mathias Barra
3 min readMay 14, 2019

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Starting to learn a new language is not easy. Starting to learn your very first one is on an even further scale.

Luckily, our friend Google is always here, full of interesting information to teach us through countless websites in any language we can think of.

Isn’t that convenient and beautiful?

If you answered yes, well, sorry to let you know you’ve fallen into our most common enemy: procrastination.

We are all well-aware we procrastinate daily.

How about a quick jump on Instagram?
How about a nice smoke before I start?
One last episode and then I’ll get to it.

But there are also many times we do not even realize we are procrastinating. Searching for a way to improve our study system, new resources, a potential partner for a task, a place to practice.

While those can definitely be of use and should be done from time to time, there are those times when we will keep on looking for more information for hours on end.

Procrastinating cannot be constantly avoided, but the problem with this second type of procrastination is the fact that we do not even realize we are doing it. Because of this, we keep on doing it and end up not having the time to proceed with our learning.

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Mathias Barra
Mathias Barra

Written by Mathias Barra

French polyglot speaking 6 languages. Writer. Helping you learn languages. Get my new ebook → https://linktr.ee/MathiasBarra

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