I can relate to your ukulele at the front door problem; even more so to the unfinished baby cardigan problem. I have a room full of unfinished projects and "ukuleles" (toys my now-grown children left behind) I am still trying to figure out what to do with. My idea for unfinished 16-year-old (in my case sometimes over 20-year-old) baby cardigan: frog it. The yarn might offer an idea for a new project. Solving the problem with your short-term, very specific goals sounds like a great idea though. Personally, I am solving the problem by embracing it. The way I see it now (at my old age), if I didn't finish something, it wasn't meant to be. With languages, it's different though. I often learn them to compare them, to see how different cultures express the same idea. Great article!
The idea of these USSM goal is brilliant! And they're not that hard to set in language learning. "I want to be able to watch movie X without subtitles", "I want to read this novel in the original".
This is brilliant! But I think I will need a private lesson on the USSM thing:)
happily :)!
I can relate to your ukulele at the front door problem; even more so to the unfinished baby cardigan problem. I have a room full of unfinished projects and "ukuleles" (toys my now-grown children left behind) I am still trying to figure out what to do with. My idea for unfinished 16-year-old (in my case sometimes over 20-year-old) baby cardigan: frog it. The yarn might offer an idea for a new project. Solving the problem with your short-term, very specific goals sounds like a great idea though. Personally, I am solving the problem by embracing it. The way I see it now (at my old age), if I didn't finish something, it wasn't meant to be. With languages, it's different though. I often learn them to compare them, to see how different cultures express the same idea. Great article!
The idea of these USSM goal is brilliant! And they're not that hard to set in language learning. "I want to be able to watch movie X without subtitles", "I want to read this novel in the original".
I know, right? It changes your whole perspective on the learning process.