Foreign language learning is nothing different from anything else you do in your life. People also make some common mistakes that should have been avoided.

1. Focus. When I started learning a foreign language, German for example, after due research and buying books that are expensive, I usually come cross some people that speak another language, French in this case, well. I couldn’t help looking into it and wondering if I could speak it, too. This distraction has happened to me between German, French, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese.

Believe me, forget about changing over and over. All that you need as a starter is focus on what you are learning. Think about taking another language only after you have achieved the goals you set up for the chosen language. Otherwise, you will end up learning nothing.

The advice I can give you to deal with this issue is learning more about the language itself and find out the things you love it for, especially the pronunciation for me because it’s the major reason I judge if I should give a go at a language.

Secondly, learn something different everyday. If you keep reading the same article everyday, you will be bored. Change topics of your reading materials, and stay interested. Other than that, you can also change the media you use in learning the foreign language. For example, if you read today, you can listen tomorrow. What’s important is to do learning as a ritual on a daily basis.

Cramming is not a good thing when it comes to learning foreign languages. You need to learn something every day rather than learn everything in a day. Separate the long hours that you are planning to use on sunday into half hours and spread them over the 7 days of the week.

3. Find out the access with your own individuality to the language learning success. If you are good at writing, doing it everyday could be easier than reading materials with numerous unfamiliar words. Know yourself in terms of what you like about a language and take that as the breakthrough point. This way you can find your own way of learning.

Take myself as an example. I am interested in reading aloud. I can do it for hours long. This could be attributted the teachers back in the primary school who often asked me to read texts aloud to the class. Now I did the same thing in learning a foreign language and found out that it worked to get my mouth familiar with the word flow.

In conclusion, these are three points that you need to keep in your mind if you want to learn or have alread been learning a foreign language. Wish you success in your language learning.