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'''Motivation''' <br> | '''Motivation''' <br> | ||
Learning a new language is hard. It takes an enormous amount of effort to get to a base level and an equal or greater amount of effort to master. Unlike the the skill of riding a bike, fluidity with a foreign language can grow rusty and unusable after years of neglect. We must fit language practice into our daily routines. | |||
This is not as easy as it sounds. We live in a busy world with hectic schedules. More and more we find ourselves | |||
The web has the biggest collection of text on any conceivable subject, in every language and it is all free, yet this massive collection of text is hardly ever used to teach new languages. Foreign language courses frequently continue to use arbitrarily chosen collections of essays to teach reading skills. This leaves students interested in sports reading foreign essays on art, those interested in art reading foreign essays on politics and those interested in politics reading foreign essays on sports. | The web has the biggest collection of text on any conceivable subject, in every language and it is all free, yet this massive collection of text is hardly ever used to teach new languages. Foreign language courses frequently continue to use arbitrarily chosen collections of essays to teach reading skills. This leaves students interested in sports reading foreign essays on art, those interested in art reading foreign essays on politics and those interested in politics reading foreign essays on sports. | ||