In a word, variety.
Any one thing, done repeatedly for long enough, is likely to get tedious.
And if you’re not interested any more, or not as interested as you were, your motivation will start to flag.
What’s more, if you’re going to learn Italian to a good level, you’ll need to think medium-long term.
And sustaining interest in the medium-long term is a real challenge.
Conclusion?
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Experiment with different learning activities, different materials, different routines.
Variety:
- your classes or online lessons
- extra vocabulary study
- online Italian exercises
- simplified readers
- Youtube videos
- music
- maybe even a CILS exam??
You gotta keep interested over the months, even years.
Ring the changes, try new things!
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Ruth Stephens says
Are you serious about discontinuing the forums?? I’m devastated and so, I’m sure are John, Sergey, Dot, Dianne and all your other regular contributors (admittedly I’m not one of them – I just listen in!). But I think i’d be speaking for all of them when I say it is one of the main reasons we continue to read Online Italian. It helps keep our interest alive and we realize we’re part of a club and can share opinions, practise our Italian etc. Please bring them back!
Daniel says
The forums have been gone for about two weeks. You’re the first one to have mentioned it, Ruth.
The abilty to leave comments, however, remains. At least for now!
Use it, or lose it.
John Thomson says
Hi Ruth, John here
I can understand why Daniel has discontinued the forums, sometimes it was months between posts and what with the spam problems etc, Daniel had to spend a lot of time maintaining them.
Like you I love the site and hope it will flourish, Daniel’s articles are always interesting but I would like to have the facility to post questions and get expert advice from a teacher. At the same time I found the personal ‘conversational type’ posts good, recipes etc. even photographs.
To make a start I am going to post a question here as a COMMENT not a REPLY later to see what happens (using a comment rather than a reply basically starts off a new thread to which others can add). Of course I will be keen to know what Daniel thinks
Saluti, spero che tu stia bene – cheers I hope you are well
l’amerei io se tu risponderei – I would love it if you would reply
John