Name: Language Learning in 2025
Uploaded: 2025-02-25T02:29:27.000Z
Duration: 30 min 47 s
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The imperative

let's talk about language learning in 2025.

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I didn't really know what title to give this video, but it's the new year and I want to talk about language learning.

I want to talk a little bit about my past year, 2024, in terms of language learning and things that happened in that process and things I learned along the way.

And I want to talk about what my plan is, let's say, for 2025.

I don't have extremely specific goals, but there's something really interesting that I want to do this year for my language learning process.

I'm sure that this will be helpful for you and that you'll be able to kind of take some lessons from what I'm saying, or maybe you just want to hear about my language learning successes and failures, because I'll talk about those.

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Okay, let me talk about 2024 and how that year was for me as a language learner.

Well, the beginning of the year, the first five months or so, were crazy for me just in terms of my life.

I'm probably not going to have another time period like that in my life again, or maybe I will.

But the circumstances were pretty unique, and so it wasn't like I had all the time in the world for language learning.

However, I did do my Italian challenge at the beginning of that year.

I actually started it in December of 2023, but I did most of the challenge at the beginning of that year.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, I did a challenge where I started learning Italian, and I learned it for 100 days.

And the reason why I did this was to help other English speakers who want to learn other languages, specifically Spanish.

I have friends and people I know that want to learn other languages.

So I kind of did this challenge to show what I would do to start learning a language during the first 100 days or 90 days or 120 days or whatever, right?

So the problem with this challenge was that I didn't really want to learn Italian.

I don't mean to offend you if you're Italian.

It's the most terms of languages that we want to learn.

I'm sure most of you want to learn English.

That's why you're watching this video right here.

I have certain languages that I'm really interested in learning and others that I'm not as interested in.

I'm somewhat interested in Italian because it's really beautiful.

It's a language that is very interesting, just in general.

But for me personally, Italian just isn't the language that I really want to learn.

I just chose it because it's the closest I could get to another English speaker learning Spanish, for example, because I wanted to replicate that process.

So I was trying to find a language that was similar to Spanish, but that I didn't know yet.

And the challenge went pretty well in the sense that I had pretty good results after 100 days.

I was happy with my results, despite the fact that halfway through the challenge, I completely lost my motivation.

And I did like the final 50 days, just because I had to, not because I wanted to.

But I learned through that process how important motivation is.

People often downplay motivation in favor of discipline.

You know, that's what all the personal development self-help people will tell you.

You're not always motivated, but you have to be disciplined.

And obviously, there's a lot of truth to that.

But in general, if you're learning a language, you better be motivated to learn it.

If not, I'm sorry, but it's not going to be a fun process.

In some cases, in my opinion, it's even more important.

Because I've seen this for myself in that Italian challenge, I was really, really disciplined with that for 100 days or whatever it was.

But the lack of motivation in the second part of that challenge just really hindered me from progressing more.

I progressed a lot the first 50 days and a lot less the second 50 days.

If you look at that whole period, the one difference between the first 50 days and the second 50 days was my motivation level.

And I could say that, yeah, I can help people that want to learn Spanish from scratch.

I have kind of a process that they could copy.

And it will help them progress a lot in 100 days or whatever.

But from here on out, I'm only going to do challenges with languages that I actually want to learn.

I'm not going to do something like that again, unless it's a language I want to learn.

So that was kind of a lesson for me from that.

But currently, this is what I wanted to talk about, you know, mostly in this video, is that currently, I'm more interested in developing my language learning methods and my philosophy when it comes to the intermediate level, not the beginner level, the intermediate level of language learning, and specifically, the act of speaking.

I'm sure that there are few people online that have made more content for listening than I have.

If you know someone who does what I do and has done it for longer, who has released more videos or episodes or whatever, I'm interested to know.

Please leave that down in a comment below.

But I think that there are few people online that have produced more listening content in terms of podcast episodes and videos than I have.

My podcast, my YouTube channel, they're called Listening Time.

And I hope, and I don't just hope, I know that my content is really useful for people that are training their listening.

This is kind of like my mission with my career, to help people with their listening and be able to understand native speakers better.

I'm not going to suddenly change my content, of course.

But for myself, I really feel the need to further develop my own philosophy, my own theories, my own beliefs about the intermediate level of language learning and specifically speaking.

Well, because in 2024, I stagnated with my French.

I did not achieve the goal that I had set for myself.

I lost motivation for several months, probably like, I don't know, maybe three months or something like that.

It wasn't that I had no motivation, but my motivation definitely wasn't where I thought it would be.

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Language Learning in 2025

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