HOW TO LEARN LANGUAGE& SMASH GOALS

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HOW TO SET SUCCESSFUL

GOALS

PART 1

Problem: The number one reason why most language learners fail is because they set huge, vague goals like “I want to be fluent” or “I want to speak.” Oh, yeah? By when? How will you get there? How much time will you dedicate on a weekly basis? And what is fluency to you? Do you want to speak about the economy in extreme detail or just be able to talk with friends? Solution: Aim for smaller goals. More specifically: small, measurable and realistic goals with a deadline. Here are a few examples: Learn 100 new words by the end of this month. Deadline: October 31st. Speak for 1 minute by the end of this month. Deadline: August 31st. Finish 60 Audio lessons by the end of this month. Deadline: November 30th.

TAKE A LOOK. ALL OF THESE GOALS ARE:

Realistic – so that it’s EASY enough to fit into your routine and accomplish.

Small – so that you don’t overwhelm yourself with a big, vague “someday, maybe I’ll reach it” goal.

Measurable – so that you know when you’ll reach it and how far you’re o�.

100 words is measurable. Either you remember all 100 or you only master 95.

1 minute is measurable.You can time yourself speaking.

60 lessons is measurable. Either you finished all the lessons or you’re at lesson #42.

All goals are limited to 1 month.

The 100 word and 1 minute goals are smaller than “learning words” or “becoming fluent.”

If you do the math, learning 100 words in a month is learning 25 words a week. That’s just 5 words a day for 5 days out of the week, or around 3 words a day for every day of the month. Anyone can learn 3 easy words.

Speaking 1 minute of conversation by the end of the month is realistic. You can easily take up 10 seconds with a greeting and an intro-duction of yourself and where you’re from.

Finishing 60 Audio lessons in a month can be realistic if you can do 2 lessons a day for the month. Each lesson is about 3 to 10 minutes in length. If you can devote up to 20 minutes a day to learning – whether on a walk or a commute to work - this can be easily done.

And, all these goals have a deadline. Why? Because when will you start speaking? Someday, hopefully? Specific deadlines get things done sooner rather than later. They make realizing your dream of learning and speaking a language happen sooner than “someday.” And deadlines are your final mark of success or failure. Either you know all 100 words, finished all 60 lessons and hit the 1-minute mark, or you did not. So, what’s your small, measurable goal for this month?

PART 2ON MAINTAINING

YOUR GOAL

BUILDING YOURLEARNING ROUTINE

What? Study 5 words a day.

How? (How will you get it done?) Study 5 new words provided in the 2,000 Core Word List with Flashcards.

When? (When will you study?) At 9PM, every weeknight. 5 days out of 7 days of the week.

For how long? 10 minutes.

Where? At home, at the computer. Now, you have your routine planned, all you have to do is put in the time until you reach your goal.

Let’s say your goal is to learn 100 words by the end of this month. However, you can apply this to any goal you set. How will you accomplish it? Just work backwards. Do the math; learning 100 words is...

Now that you know how many words you should learn per day (or week) to hit your monthly goal, let’s move on to the actual daily routine.

Your next step is to answer these next 5 questions.

Learning 5 words a day for 5 days of the week for 4 weeks.Learning 3-4 words a day every day forthe month.Or whichever other variation you’re most comfortable with.

ON HITTING/MISSING

GOALS

PART 3

If you do the math, learning 100 words in a month is learning 25 words a week. That’s just 5 words a day for 5 days out of the week, or around 3 words a day for every day of the month. Anyone can learn 3 easy words.

Speaking 1 minute of conversation by the end of the month is realistic. You can easily take up 10 seconds with a greeting and an intro-duction of yourself and where you’re from.

Finishing 60 Audio lessons in a month can be realistic if you can do 2 lessons a day for the month. Each lesson is about 3 to 10 minutes in length. If you can devote up to 20 minutes a day to learning – whether on a walk or a commute to work - this can be easily done.

- What to do when you hit your goal.First of all, congratulations! There’s a good reason why we highly recommend these small, measurable goals – because they’re easy enough to achieve...and they work! Once you hit the first one, you gain the confidence and knowhow for setting goals and sticking with them. Now, let’s say you learned 100 words in a month. If you’re comfortable with learning that much in a month, do 100 for the next month. Keep the goal and routine. If it was TOO easy, which is not a bad thing, then for your next monthly goal, scale up to 120 words. By the end of the next month you’ll know 220 words as your goals add up as you con-tinue learning.

Just picture this:

That’s 860 words learned in 6 months. Or, if you aim for 1 minute of conversation by the first month – just imagine – you could be speaking for over 15 minutes in 6 months, instead of hoping to learn and speak... one day, sometime in the unknown future. Now, let’s say you only hit 50 or 70 words. In other words, you came up short.

Month 1Month 2Month 3Month 4Month 5Month 6

100 Words120 Words150 Words160 Words170 Words160 Words

860 WordsTotal

WordsTime

- What to do if you miss your goal. Don’t beat yourself up over it. There could be many reasons why – some may be even out of your control. If your initial goal was not realistic for your current daily rou-tine, then maybe you need to aima little lower if you come up short.

So, here’s what you should do:

Forget fast. This was just one minor stumble and is not worth thinking about too much. Don’t beat yourself up. There could be many reasons why you didn’t reach a goal; some may be even out of your control. It’s pos-sible that your current schedule — work, school, life — is just too busy for this specific goal.Don’t double up on your goals next month to “punish” yourself or make up for lost time. If learning 100 words was not realistic, then 200 won’t be realistic either.Aim lower. If 100 was not doable, try 80 or 70 next month- or even 50. The point of these goals is to make them easy and realis-tic enough for you to achieve. You can always scale back up later.And try again.

Now, you know: How to set successful goals How to set a routine How to adjust your goal and routine if you fail Over the next few pages, you’ll get a day by day calendar-planner that you can print and fill out with your: Monthly goals Deadlines Daily Routines This will help you reach your language goals and keep you on track.

LEARNING A LANGUAGE

YOUR DAY-BY-DAY PLANNER

PART 4

Here’s an example of what a day by day schedule can look like. If you’ve broken down your goal, as instructed in part 2 (and answered the questions: what? how? when? where? for how long?), you can fill in that information here.

GOAL DEADLINE

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAYTake lesson #1 of Absolute Beginner Series- Lesson audio- Read lesson notes- Take quiz

Review Lesson #1 - Listen to the dialogue track- Reread lesson notes- Practice speaking with the dialogue tool

Speak 1 Minute of Language1 August 31st, 2017

Take lesson #2 Review Lesson #1 Practice the Conversa-tion from Lessons #1 & 2 with the Dialogue Tool

Review Lesson #3 Take lesson #3 Take lesson #4 Review Lesson #4 Practice the Conversa-tion from Lessons #3 & 4 with the Dialogue Tool

Take lesson #5 Review Lesson #5 Take lesson #6 Review Lesson #6 Practice the Conversa-tion from Lessons #5 & 6 with the Dialogue Tool

Take lesson #7 Review Lesson #7 Take lesson #8 Review Lesson #8 Practice the Conversa-tion from Lessons #7 & 8 with the Dialogue Tool

EXAMPLEMONTH

GOALMONTH DEADLINE

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

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