How is coronavirus affecting your studies?

[leosmith]

I'm actually pretty "good" at isolating myself and plugging away at languages without any mandatory restrictions on my daily activities, so it probably won't impact me. But I wonder what kind of affect covid-19 will have on language learners in general. Will it hurt your efforts or help them?

[Gustav Aschenbach]

I would say positively because I don't leave the house so often and I watch more Netflix etc. (of course always in some foreign language). Unfortunately I still have to go to the office (although it would be possible to do home office, I have several colleagues who work 100% of the time from home).

[ryanheise]

It has really gotten in the way of my language exchange plans. This year I was planning to spend a lot more time doing face-to-face language exchanges, and had designed some activities that would have worked best in a face-to-face group environment, but the coronavirus situation does make me a bit more cautious, so I'll be putting off those plans for a while. But it's not as though that's going to completely stop my studies. I can still try to emulate some of what I hoped to do through Skype, and you can never really be truly idle with learning because there's always something you can be doing, whatever your situation.

[golyplot]

I was hoping it would be positive (more time to study! less time wasting!) but for the last few days, I haven't been able to work up the motivation to do much anyway.

[guyome]

No real influence for now but I expect more time will have to be spent indoors in the very near future, which means I'll have a golden opportunity to try and finish all these wonderful audio courses I've only dabbled with so far (LT Greek, Swahili and Spanish).

[Sahmilat]

I was planning to do a study abroad program in Italy this summer. You can guess how that turned out.

On a more positive note, I have nothing but time at home with my books. Sure would like to finish a couple of these German novels I have so I can clear out some space for new books.

[chove]

No influence so far, I don't get out much anyway (disabled) and the uni course I do is mostly online anyway.

[aokoye]

As of now I think the answer is going to be "positively". More time at home means more time studying. The reals question is how my mental health is going to hold up with the increasing social distancing. That's what has the largest negative effect for me.

[emk]

This is probably not a good idea, but I'm debating whether or not I actually want to read Camus's La Peste, which supposedly captures the psychology of how a city reacts to a bad plague. I've seen some quoted passages from it recently and they're pretty powerful.

I'm not sure that's a good mental health move, however. I may want something lighter, or possibly even brainlessly amusing. Not even necessarily in French. We'll see.

[Adrianslont]

Seems I'm only one that has it here. (I'm young so should be fine)

Big oh negative effect.

When I don't feel like I'm drowning, the last thing on my mind is studying. Mostly distracting myself with youtube and reddit. Oh and making stuff I will study later.

Get well soon!

I hope you are receiving good care and good support from those around you.