Comments on: Habit hacking for language learners

By: Four key principles to improve your Mandarin listening comprehension | Hacking Chinese

Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:01:20 +0000

[…] routines, like listening to podcasts while commuting or watching Chinese TV shows during breaks. Building habits around listening will ensure that you practise regularly, letting you get more done with less […]

By: The three factors that determine how much Chinese you learn | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese

Sat, 25 May 2024 13:08:58 +0000

[…] Habit hacking for language learners […]

By: Listen more and learn more by building a personal Chinese audio library | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:01:39 +0000

[…] need to deconstruct old ones to free up time. I talked more about habits for learning Chinese in Habit hacking for language learners, but for the discussion here, it’s enough to note that changing behaviour is not […]

By: 100 hours of Chinese listening in 3 weeks: What I learnt and how to apply it | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 06:24:59 +0000

[…] Still, most people don’t listen to spoken audio for five hours a day, and it’s not necessarily because there isn’t content they would find interesting. Like many other things in life, listening a lot is about building solid habits. […]

By: Skritter Review: Boosting your Chinese character learning | Hacking Chinese

Skritter Review: Boosting your Chinese character learning | Hacking Chinese — Sun, 28 May 2023 10:57:14 +0000

[…] texts without using a dictionary all the time. This is not something that can be conquered quickly; the only thing that works is building good habits, batten down the hatches and never give up. Skritter makes sure you don’t forget what […]

By: How to not fail with your New Year resolution to learn Chinese | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 10:14:56 +0000

[…] making them stick, it’s worth mentioning that other approaches are usually better. Gradually building good habits over time is more likely to succeed than making radical changes overnight. Another approach is the forking […]

By: 7 ideas for smooth and effortless Chinese listening practice | Hacking Chinese

Sun, 05 Sep 2021 07:40:44 +0000

[…] Create solid listening habits – Modern life is possible partly because we have a large number of well-established habits that require no effort to perform. If we had to actively choose to brush our teeth every morning, we would have little energy left for what really matters. Once habits are formed, they are great energy-savers. Of course, this applies to listening as well! Gradually build up your listening habits with specific triggers, such as while doing a specific activity (running, cooking), a specific time (at eight o’clock every morning) or a specific place (when you get into the car). Read more about habit hacking for language learners here. […]

By: 9 Weird Ways Learning Mandarin is Like Stretching (And Why You Should Care) - Mandarin Monkey

Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:09:16 +0000

[…] we have some pretty good learning habits in place, it can be the same story with […]

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:20:21 +0000

In reply to Hugh Grigg. Khatz over at All Japanese All the Time says this all the time. Everything is better than nothing. The only truly bad number is zero. I agree completely and wholeheartedly. It's also fascinating to see how much of language learning applies to life in general and how much of life in general applies to language learning!

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:17:53 +0000

In reply to David Feigelson. I'm tempted to answer "most", but I also think some projects are undone because of a lack of action as well. I realise that I'm probably in a minority, but I do tend to plan too much rather than too little.