The Average Polyglot

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On reusing resources in language learning

On reusing resources in language learning

Thursday's Thousandth Thought (TTT) #11

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Mathias Barra
Jan 19, 2023
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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.

An untold usefulness

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