After our live episode for number 100, we're rolling 'back to school' and reviewing summer motivation and new routines before cracking on with our topics this month.
In The News
We discussed this BBC news article (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45414751) about a pedantic (?) rule in French grammar...and who's trying to get rid of it. The language, ever changing, but who thought THIS untouchable rule would be questioned?
How To Refresh Your Language Learning Goals
In this episode we focused on the big topic of goals. Do you EVER get everything done that you aim to do in language learning?
Here's what we discussed
How we think about achieving or failing to achieve our own language goals
What the word for "failing to achieve" should be (call me maybe, Merriam-Webster)
The hidden information you only get from a failed language goal
The two sides of reviewing language goals on deadline day: data and motivation
6 Strategies for refreshing your language learning goals and dealing with disappointment
What is a good tracking method to make sure you actually work on your goals?
Whether to re-set or abandon a goal if you didn't achieve it
episode 104 quote https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/9/9103f3da-a263-4bfe-b5a3-58649ff9b5f7/WIrr2RVU.png
A Song For When You Wonder If Your Progress Will Disappear Because You Didn't Reach A Goal
Everything stays
Right where you left it
Everything stays
But it still changes
Ever so slightly
Daily and nightly
In little ways
When everything stays
And here's a wonderfully helpful quote from Ira Glass

Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

And finally, more life advice from "Adventure Time"