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Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-09-14 02:29:02)
If

You're learning a language, and

You managed to get far enough with it (say, being able to hold convos of significant length, read regular books, etc.), and

You're doing it self-taught without any formal classes, and

You're doing it on the side (i.e. you still have to do work/school/your usual responsibilities)

What did you do and how do you structure it? Looking for ideas here :cirnothinking:
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Robin Syl 🌸:blobcat_box: :heart_nb:@robinsyl@meow.social (2026-09-14 22:16:55)
@koakuma I think the most important thing for me is I had to have a clear goal. I spent a lot of time on Dutch because I wanted to move to the Netherlands (and I did), so that was a concrete goal with also negative consequences for failure. I found it hard to learn Irish because I have no reason to learn it other than it's fun.

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Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd@koakuma@uwu.social (2026-09-14 22:31:16)
@robinsyl That's pretty much the only reason how I managed to learn $NATIVE_LANGUAGE and English in the first place; can't survive and can't get a job without the two!

But yeah other than having to do it to be able to communicate it's quite hard to find the drive :haha: 

(Also why I have mad respect for people who can do it without strong external circumstances)

Some people say that I "just" have to consume a lot of media and use the language whenever the opportunity presents itself but I'm already struggling to do those things even in languages that I do know~ *glances at the pile of books that I intend to read... maybe someday*