On reusing resources in language learning
Thursday's Thousandth Thought (TTT) #11
I’ve amassed hundreds of resources for all my languages throughout the years. Some physical, some digital. All with the same quality of being “potentially useful.”
I haven’t used a quarter of it all.
Some resources are still at a higher level than mine. Some turned out to be too easy or boring. Some I just haven’t gotten around to.
Then, there are those resources I’ve turned back to time after time. The ones I can’t imagine having never used. The ones that have left a strong impact on my journey to speaking the language.
And among those, there are even the resources I didn’t even consider as potentially useful for my language learning journey.
These resources have taught me the most important aspect of language learning:
Learning a language is not a straight path.
You see, we all forget what brought us to where we are. We think we need to change because we’ve reached a “new level.”
And we’re completely wrong.