Language Learning Hacks: Ditch Perfectionism & Speak Now
00:00:00.000 | Are there any hacks or tips you've developed or helped people with
00:00:03.400 | to kind of get over those nerves and get over the need to be a perfectionist?
00:00:07.000 | You have to speak your target language from day one.
00:00:11.200 | So I think one big mental barrier people have is they decide
00:00:16.600 | I'm going to study the language for a certain amount of time.
00:00:19.700 | I'm going to learn Spanish.
00:00:21.100 | So one year from now, I will have reached that magic moment
00:00:24.700 | when I can finally walk up to a native speaker and speak Spanish to them.
00:00:28.100 | And I think that is a fool's errand because this creates a new situation
00:00:34.600 | in your head where you have to wait until you're ready
00:00:37.600 | and then you can make all the excuses in the world that you're not ready yet
00:00:42.000 | because you will never be at 100% perfectionism in Spanish,
00:00:46.500 | even when you reach the very high levels I've talked about.
00:00:50.200 | So to throw that out the window, you have to decide
00:00:53.600 | I'm going to speak it right away, even though I only know ten words.
00:00:57.700 | I'm still going to try and use it.