Been spending 4+ hours per day studying languages for the last year and a half.
It started as a challenge to learn German, and now it's spiraled into going to polyglot conferences and doing "learning challenges".
Right now, my main focus is on Swedish, but I've joined a 3-month language challenge, where I'm trying to learn as much of Inuktitut as I can.
Since 2 weeks ago, I study most days on Twitch as personal motivation; I think most people would find this boring, but I've had a few people show up semi-regularly, so here's the link if that's something that floats your boat: https://www.twitch.tv/letsstudylanguages/
I spend a solid chunk of time on r/languagelearning haha :p... it's that curse of spending as much time talking about language learning as doing the actual studying :|. can find me under u/ninjarobotdino
Thanks for the reminder re: language learners forum ... I was on there a year or two ago. I'll make sure to check it out again and try to stay active! :D The polyglot community is such a cool group of eclectic people.
I get up early and go to bed early. I have no energy after work, so I study in the morning from 4a-8a'ish. It took a little life-hacking to get used to, but I feel a lot more accomplished each day, before I even get into the nitty-gritty meetings and pushing code.
I usually go out with coworkers on Friday evenings and on Saturdays/Sundays I find myself at a local brewery or event with friends. Certainly not out drinking every night.
There was definitely a conscious decision to prioritize this learning time and turn it into a routine. It also didn't happen all at once... it started at 45 min a day, then 90ish, etc.; I invested more as I saw the return on investment piling up. There's certainly days where I get little to no studying done and others where I get loads, but I try to get a minimum in.
At the beginning, I'd mostly just got tired of telling myself "someday" and registered for a class. From there it's kinda snowballed. Once I found out there were other people doing this and that they had meetups and conferences, it was that much more motivating to spend time on.
It started as a challenge to learn German, and now it's spiraled into going to polyglot conferences and doing "learning challenges".
Right now, my main focus is on Swedish, but I've joined a 3-month language challenge, where I'm trying to learn as much of Inuktitut as I can.
Since 2 weeks ago, I study most days on Twitch as personal motivation; I think most people would find this boring, but I've had a few people show up semi-regularly, so here's the link if that's something that floats your boat: https://www.twitch.tv/letsstudylanguages/