Feeling Demotivated

Japanese Language
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I recently started using comprehensible input more as a primary learning method. There are times where I feel everything is easy and other days where I feel like my brain just isn’t working and everything is nonsense. I don’t know if this happens to anyone else. I’m also a lot better at reading and I was able to mostly follow along through the whole Chants of Sennar play through even though it’s Intermediate level so long as I use the subtitles.

I will use YouTube and listen to other Japanese content through a work shift for a few hours. I like Nihongo Con Teppei but there are times where even some of his beginner content is hard to understand when he speaks fast. There’s another channel I watch Akane Japanese class. I don’t know what level her stuff is geared toward but she is easier to understand usually.

I guess the point of this rambling post is just to ask others, how do you deal with feeling demotivated?

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I think that’s just a consequence of being a human being! I definitely have days where everything slides into my brain easily and other days where the exact thing just sounds like mush

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This is normal and I have it happen in all my study methods. There are some days my kanji study in anki is like looking at hieroglyphics and on level CI is just noise.

Then other days where I feel “man this is easy”.

When you have a rough day just go back and watch some old content. It helps reinforce the fact that yes you have progressed.

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