To start with, how many of you have got down to learning a language with determination promising yourself that this time you will surely succeed in it? And how many times have you set the ball rolling?

After a number of attempts to master the target language, have you ever asked yourself what made you give up or why you didn’t manage to achieve the desired result? Oftentimes students blame their teachers for incompetence or justify own incapacity of picking up a new language by a lack of talent or having no predisposition to languages.

In reality, without removing responsibility from teachers, they are just the figures who facilitate the learning process providing students with proper learning materials. Though, it must be admitted that some of them are liable to “infect” the latter with enthusiasm and engage them in learning better than other teachers.

Regarding talent, you might have heard about cases when students, who had failed to make progress in learning a foreign language at school, eventually accomplished their goal and, furthermore, kept on acquiring other foreign languages using right learning methods. Draw your conclusions.

So, what does success lie in if not in a competent teacher and innate talent? Or, in other words, what essentially prevents us from becoming proficient foreign-language speakers?

Stop Halfway

First and foremost, the feeling of having enough of studying comes up right before getting close to noticeable results. This probably happens because students start off intensively overloading themselves with excessive practice and anticipating immediate results. Subsequently, not having received them in a short time, feelings of frustration and exhaustion come along. It is advisable, therefore, to spread out the load, starting off from minimum effort and evolving it into an enjoyable full-fledged session. Such an approach will arguably allow you to get used to the target language without exposing yourself to unnecessary stress and frustration.

Be in a Comfort Zone

Language learning covers various areas. As a rule, students struggle with Speaking and Listening. Nevertheless, when it comes to improving these areas, paradoxically they focus on the ones they know better, deliberately avoiding mastering troublesome areas as if to stay within their comfort zone. By working on your weak points with persistency, dedication and constancy, you are highly likely to reach a desired outcome after all.

Not to Make it a Priority

Is the foreign language you intend to acquire your priority? Is it something you desperately need in your life so that you give it preference as to anything you cannot get by without? If it is so, then you will always find time throughout the day to practise the target language and will consciously make efforts to see explicit results soon. Otherwise, be content with small progress leaving aside high expectations.