2025-06-13
12 分钟Today I want to share with you my Persian learning adventure and I want to talk about what I call the long road to fluency and what we need to do to make sure we maintain our motivation.
We know that to learn a language we need to be motivated initially,
we need to maintain our motivation and we need to spend the time.
Of course, spending the time depends on our level of motivation.
So I want to talk about Persian and my experience with Persian.
I'm going to show you some excerpts of me speaking Persian six years ago and then just recently with my tutor.
So, motivation.
Well, to me, language learning,
because I have so many languages that I have learned to varying degrees of fluency,
my motivation is always this sense of adventure,
this sense of discovery, learning about places that...
Before I learn their language,
the people might seem almost like a caricature or they're not alive to me
because I haven't been able to learn their language and learn about them through their language.
So that's my motivation.
So if I go back to my exposure to Persian, surprisingly,
it starts with a trip that I made with my wife to Greece and then to Israel,
which we had planned back in whenever it was, 2017.
So prior to going to Greece, I spent a lot of time with Greek,
six, eight months, and I was able to use my Greek when in Greece.