If You Don’t Know Your Style You Will Fail

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Learning anything takes time. Yet, we all constantly complain about not having enough to do what we want. This is one of the main reasons why most people who want to learn a language dive into it without putting much thought in the process itself.

This turns out to be the biggest mistakes you can do when trying to learn a language. In order to learn a language to a high level, it is crucial to know how you learn first.

So here are three ways to improve your learning journey’s efficiency by understanding yourself first.

1. Know your goal

When learning, say Japanese, your goal may vary greatly from listening to music to reading manga to learn more about its culture or history or simply to exchange with its native people.

Figuring out what your goal is is the first task to tackle.

Depending on the goal, the way to approach the learning process will vary greatly.

Do you want to be able to read or listen? Then your main goal is learning a whole lot of passive vocabulary. You won’t need to be able to recall it yourself but you need to aim to be able to understand words and expressions coming at you.

For such purpose, many use applications such as Anki and extensive reading/listening.