1. Dream

Before you even get started, you imagine yourself speaking the language flawlessly with natives, impressing everyone around you.

2. Excitement

You’re super excited and decide to buy every book on the language you can get your hands on.

3. Procrastination

You endlessly read blog articles about learning the language, or about people talking about learning the language. Or you just read stuff like this post.

4. Delusion

You tell yourself you’ll memorize something like 50 new words and study 5 hours every day.

5. Return to Reality

You figure out that’s not going to happen.

6. Getting down to business

You actually start going through some of your glossy textbooks and programs that you had bought a few weeks ago.

7. Demotivation

After a couple of weeks, you say %$!# this.

8. Pulling yourself together

You finally pull yourself together and restart learning the language. You’ve found your inner force back again.

9. Perfectionist

You decide you’ll speak that language perfectly before ever opening your mouth with a native.

10. Return to Reality #2

You figure out that’s not going to happen.

11. Pride

You finally start getting a hang of the language. You’re really excited about yourself.

12. Fluency

That’s it! You can speak the language! All these years of work really did pay off after all.

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Have you gone through many, if not most of these stages in your language studies? Let us know in the comments section below!

By Lingholic

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