20 Language Learning Mistakes That Keep You Stuck for Years

Let me start by saying something very clearly . If you are learning a language and you feel slow, stuck, inconsistent, frustrated , or even like everyone else is better at it than you, then I want you to hear this . You are not bad at languages . [music] You are not lazy. And . And you're also not just not good at languages. What's actually happening here is much simpler and it's also much more fixable . You are making mistakes that almost every language learner makes . Mistakes that schools accidentally teach, apps quietly reinforce them and YouTube advice often ignores . Now, I speak three foreign languages and I have made all of these mistakes learning those languages . [music] I also teach English as a foreign language and my students have . Even very intelligent, motivated people make these mistakes . [music] And the worst part about it is that most of them don't feel like mistakes . They actually feel like effort and you're working hard to do them . So today, I want to walk you through 20 mistakes that language learners make that quietly keep you stuck for years and finally help you understand why progress has felt so hard even when you've been trying . This is not a study harder video . And this is also not motivation [music] and it's not just language height . This is about clarity. Take . Take your time with this . Let it play and pause when you need to . By the end, I promise [music] language learning is going to feel less chaotic . Your past effort is also finally going to make sense . And [music] you'll know exactly what you need to and what actually helps. So, let's start with number one. Number one is that you are trying to learn everything . [music] One of the biggest mistakes language learners make is believing that they need to learn everything in order to move forward. So that includes more words , more rules, more grammar, more exceptions, more content