{"id":11645,"date":"2015-09-02T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11645"},"modified":"2015-09-02T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:05:30","slug":"language-learning-lethargy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11645","title":{"rendered":"Language learning lethargy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/lethargy.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Cat on dictionaries - an illustration of language learning lethargy\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are there times when you don&#8217;t feel like learning languages and can&#8217;t summon up much enthusiasm about them? When language learning lethargy strikes, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>For me most of August this year was like that &#8211; I did use my languages when I had the chance, and spoke quite a bit of French and Welsh, and odd bits of Italian and Irish. I also listened to plenty of foreign language radio, as I often do. I didn&#8217;t go out of my way to find opportunities to practise my languages though, and didn&#8217;t study at all for almost the whole month. This is unusual for me.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I think to myself, &#8220;You already speak five languages more or less fluently, and know quite a few others to varying degrees. Isn&#8217;t that enough?&#8221;, and my usual answer is &#8220;No, I want to learn more!&#8221;. Recently however, my motivation to learn more has been low and my answer was &#8220;Yes, that&#8217;s enough for now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This month I am re-starting my studies with Czech, and am planning to start dabbling with other languages as well. Yesterday my Teach Yourself Swedish course finally arrived &#8211; the one I got for free after attending the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin in May. So I will be learning more Swedish before long.<\/p>\n<p>If you come down with language learning lethargy from time to time, how do you deal with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there times when you don&#8217;t feel like learning languages and can&#8217;t summon up much enthusiasm about them? When language learning lethargy strikes, in fact. For me most of August this year was like that &#8211; I did use my languages when I had the chance, and spoke quite a bit of French and Welsh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,111,128,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}