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Languages and self-improvement: an inter-connectivity
As mentioned in my very first post, languages and self-improvement are very closely related are can simplify each other easily.
Learning a new language allows us to understand better others and learning to understand oneself allows us to simplify and deepen this understanding.
But how can we maximize this fact?
1. The language’s perspective
a. Appreciate the small successes
Any learning will need time to settle and become of use to anybody. However, taking notes of small successes on a daily/weekly basis will allow you to keep going even through hard times. We all have what we call “down periods”, where even the idea of studying is demotivating due to us leaving the rest of our lives impacting us, but if we notice small evolutions, things we didn’t know yesterday or a week ago, we can overcome those periods.
We can then use this satisfying feeling of success to help us realize that we are evolving and ourselves from a week ago isn’t the same anymore.
Learning in itself is makes ourselves more knowledgeable and improve our understanding of others. But by studying a language and the culture that goes with it, then we can learn more about ourselves.
