Learn Foreign Languages

We finally come to this question. Before we do some exploration, I need you to just think back about the reasons that we laid out in previous blog posts why people want to learn a foreign language. Part of the answers to this question can be found there and self-explanatory.

We cannot deny that this is question that must be answered before we do anything further. And it is as well one of the questions that are of the hardest to answer. Your mind might be the best source you can turn to for the solution. But sometimes passion shall be supported by reasoning, too.

Otherwise, your passion will fade away as time goes. To reason realistically, you may want to look into the following items before you can find out what language you are willing to learn without giving up easily.

1. Purposes.

We have talked about this much already. However, purpose might be the most important motivating factor that can keep you on the right track. The purposes you are looking for here might include: you like traveling; you want to do business with people from another country where you have seen great opportunities; you are a scientist and are eager to learn the research that your counterparts in another country are doing; you like a girl from another country and would like to learn her language to impress her; whatever you want to achieve in your life can come into this list.

With the purpose in you mind, to find out the language you want to learn will not be an issue at all.
I often ask people who turned to me for help in English this question: what do you want to get with your English? The answers are normally not to the point. But once a girl told me that she want to understand what they are talking about on Friends without subtitles.