This week, reflect on WHY you are learning your target language. Do you want to travel and be able to communicate with people in that country? Would it make your job easier if you spoke XX language? Do your in-laws speak another language and you’d like to feel more like family when you are around them? It is important to have a strong reason to fall back on when your language study begins to plateau or you notice yourself losing interest.

If you want to travel, be specific–what do you want to see? Dream it! Visualize it! Write it down! And maybe, just maybe, buy a ticket! THIS site is also fun to play around with, either to click on all of the states/ countries you’ve visited or the ones you would like to visit someday. So… WHY are you learning your language in particular? And do you know how to say why in the language you’re studying??!

EXTRA: Need even more? Check out this language-based post re: Columbus Day from last year, in case you missed it.