Comments on: Preparing for rainy days and dealing with slumps https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/ A better way of learning Mandarin Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:18:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Listen more and learn more by building a personal Chinese audio library | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-116510 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:18:24 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-116510 […] Building your personal Chinese audio library requires some management and preparation before you listen. If you find yourself on your commute, thinking that it would be cool to listen to something easy in Chinese, but you don’t have it easily available, it’s likely that you won’t listen, because finding the audio will take more energy than you have available. Thus, you need to build your library in advance, not when you need it. This is true in general, so make sure you prepare for rainy days in advance so you can avoid deep sl… […]

]]> By: How I learnt Vietnamese - Part 2 - More Vietnamese https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-36235 Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:06:06 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-36235 […] preparing for slumps before they happen and not comparing yourself to others is excellent advice. That way, when the going gets tough, […]

]]> By: How to find more time learning a language | Language News https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-16378 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 19:51:40 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-16378 […] Preparing for rainy days and dealing with slumps […]

]]> By: lechuan https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-2670 Thu, 21 Nov 2013 01:48:16 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-2670 Thanks Olle, a very timely article for me! I just hit a slump, and was prepared thanks to your article. Fortunately I picked up enough characters in my flows to start reading basic graded readers. Slumping through Mandarin Companion and Chinese Breeze is a lot more productive than playing (english) video games!

I also try to switch between different learning materials when I start feeling slumpy. Even with a short attention span, having enough to switch through keepa me moving forward.

]]> By: Andreas https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-2669 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:03:18 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-2669 I always feel a bit like learning Mandarin is mainly a test of character. These slumps will come and while above is very good advice and there are ways to make it easier, in the end this is when people are separated into two groups: those who give up and those who don’t.

]]> By: Chris https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-2668 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:51:07 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-2668 In reply to Olle Linge.

I just posted something on habit cues related to language learning, but I think it is fairly complex and hard to find something that is definitive. Check it out and let me know what you think.

]]> By: Whizz Learning | Start reading and writing Chinese as quickly and painlessly as possible! https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-2667 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:46:00 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-2667 […] posted a comment on a  Hacking Chinese article (great read!) about how to deal with slumps in language learning. It has a good discussion of activities people can do for different levels of time commitments and […]

]]> By: nommoc https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-2666 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 02:02:26 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-2666 I’m in a slump.
Haven’t read Chinese aloud in days.

]]> By: Learning Chinese requires good perspective | Learn Chinese Blog | Learn to speak Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-2665 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 05:29:05 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-2665 […] a similar theme, you might want to check out Olle Linge’s recent helpful posts on Hacking Chinese of persevering with Chinese when you are lacking […]

]]> By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/preparing-for-rainy-days-and-dealing-with-slumps/#comment-2664 Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:47:26 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4208#comment-2664 In reply to Daniel.

I really like the analogy with driving! It also introduced another problem that I haven’t really talked about, namely how to spot the curve so that you can slow down before entering it…

I agree that the same thinking can be applied to situations when you lack time as well, which should be clear from the number of already published articles I referenced in this one. I have already written about most of that, but this time, I wanted to focus on motivational slumps in particular!

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