Atinkoriko wrote:How do you guys deal with wanderlust? Tips needed
I dealt with it (almost) for good not long after joining this community. Of course seeing all those successful learners of so many wonderful languages was too tempting. So, instead of fighting it and failing, I gave in. I spent approximately two months learning much more about languages than learning any particular language trully. I looked up some cultural points, learners' experience, scripts, available resources, examples on youtube, and so on. I went through the first unit of a course of various languages.I was learning about approximately 20 langauges, perhaps more. I also learnt a lot about langauge learning in general.
Results:
Looking such stuff up isn't so much fun anymore!
I already know most "how to learn" articles on the internet before reading, since most are so repetitive!
After ingesting all this information, the languages I had been tempted to start naturally feel into one of these categories:
1.I definitely want to learn this, even though I cannot start them all at once. (a rather short list.), such as Italian
2.I would like to learn this, if I have time. But I am in no hurry and not gonna postpone languages from the group 1 for these. (approximately as many as the group 1. And this is the only category that has been changing noticeably since my Wanderlust era),such as Polish
3.Those would be nice to know, but too hard to learn, or too hard to get resources for, or otherwise the efforts/results ratio wouldn't be favorable, such as Welsh
4.Languages I am no longer interested in. Of course they are great, just for other learners than me. For example Hindi.
It is a counterintuitive method perhaps. It is like bringing a child to a chocolate store, and letting it eat huge amounts of everything the child desires. Of course it will get sick. And it will be much more careful and reasonable in future