Adept English - Learning Language Consistently

You will find the full article, lesson audio file and transcript here: https://adeptenglish.com/lessons/english-learning-language-3/

Whenever you set out to do something new, like learning to speak English, something you want to do that is not part of your life’s routine at the moment, you need to prepare yourself. If you want to do something new, like learning a language, then you need to decide what things you need to do, and focus on adding this additional set of routines to your daily life.

You need to break down the tasks needed to achieve the result, speaking English. Learning language activities you need and implement them consistently. You need to make room in your existing daily routines and you need to keep doing them until you form a habit.

People are mostly a collection of routines, activities we do repeatedly. You have routines you must undertake, like eating, to survive. But you have flexibility on when and how you execute these routines.

Just saying, “I want to learn a new language,” is not a habit. Saying “I will go to a language class 2 days a week,” is not enough, you need to make learning to speak a language part of your life’s routine. You need to build this extra activity into every one of your days and make it a habit.

Establish a consistent set of routines and make room for them to take place. Once you’ve decided what you will do you need to stick to the routines until they become a habit, which in my experience takes about 20-40 days.

How do you build learning to speak English into your daily routine?

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• Find a language learning system. Something that already has tasks and routines you can use.
  
• A morning ritual. Maybe it’s as simple as making sure you have your Adept English audio lessons on your phone and you charge your mobile phone up.
  
• Do things even if you don’t want to do it. If your routine is to listen to 30 minutes of native English speakers every day, then do that. No excuses.
  
• Don’t disappoint yourself. Set realistic goals, don’t set yourself up to fail.
  
• Focus on doing the routine. To begin with it is important to implement your new routine consistently. Forget about the language learning results. This will come later.
  
• Make it fun. You are more likely to stick with something you enjoy.
  
• Forget about what you did before. You might have tried learning a language before. Forget about history, focus on the now.
  
• Set reminders. When you start a new routine, you need to remind yourself to do it. Set your computer screensaver to remind you, send yourself a text message, leave post-it notes. Ask friends to remind you!