A no-brainer?
This seems fairly obvious but often people try to learn a language by stuffing themselves full of grammar books or exercises that tell you that this man's name is "Tom" and the woman's "Mary". Needless to say many times people stop learning a language after the first few exercises. Could there be a connection here maybe?
Well, while this is okay as a start for people driven by other motivating factors such as, they need the language for work or to function in everyday life, it isn't very motivating for most ordinary learners. So you have to find two or three powerful motivating factors to keep you at the grindstone. For instance, after a grammar exercise. think to yourself "Right, and this piece of grammar I can now use for ......" And then you have confirmed the usefulness of it. Then it's easier to grind through a grammar exercise.
Somthing I normally do is read something I'm interested in anyway. this might mean that the text is at a higher level than I am, but then I'm stretching myself in the language and for me this is motivating.
What's motivating for you?
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