30-Second Summary
My motivation to study Ukrainian declined and I practiced less. This was because I got close to achieving my fluency goal. Therefore, I set a new goal, felt motivated again, and am spending more time on studying.
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In my last blog post, I told you that I started learning Ukrainian.
I was curious to see if I it was possible to hold simple conversations about a few topics of personal interest within 60-120 hours of study. In theory, I felt it was possible.
52 hours of study later, I’m close to achieving the goal I set.
I’ve proven to myself it is possible. Yay! Since then, I took what I learned and updated my business’ teaching methods. I would like to see if I can reliably replicate these results for other adult learners.
If you want to try the new curriculum I have created, click here to contact me. I have a beginner course and an intermediate course.
Beginner goal: hold simple conversations
Intermediate goal: hold in-depth conversations
Here is an insight I gained from my 52 hours of study.
Meaningful goals matter…at least for me. You see, lately I feel less motivated to study Ukrainian since I’ve almost achieved my initial goal. Where I used to study a couple of hours a day, I now spend a couple of hours a week.
Therefore, I set a new goal: complete 100 hours of Ukrainian study.
I would like to see just how fluent I am by the end of it. Having a new goal gave me a reason to book more Ukrainian lessons. I feel I might quit before reaching 100 hours. However, at a minimum it got me to book more classes.
I will have classes almost every day of the week.
The reason behind this even surprises me. I have thought about this reason almost every day for the past couple of weeks.
I will share the reason in the next blog post. Yay for cliffhangers!
PS - a fun language fact…
Did you know that Ukrainian has flexible word order? You can order words in a sentence in almost any way you want and the sentence is still correct and natural.