Over the last 3 weeks I’ve been struggling to keep to 3 languages a day. I seem to progress with one in particular and then resent leaving it for a language which this week is being more tricksy.

The varied learning patterns are a big step forward – but I don’t quite have the perfect balance yet.

From today I’m going to try a new approach. 2 hours per day but only with 2 languages. I’ll try to keep the two hours to separate times of the day to help give my mind a clean break. The hour will consist of 30mins with Michel Thomas and 30mins reading. Doing this for three days will give me 2 hours of study on each language and keep it quite varied. Hopefully I should progress strongly enough to keep me really keen.

I’m trying to apply TR’s theory of how to succeed:

Try
Assess
Re-try differently
Assess
Re-try differently

etc… until you are totally fabulously successful! :)

It’s certainly helping better than trudging along getting cross with myself up for not working harder or being more disciplined.