My daily goal for language learning (and why it works)

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  How many of you remember the radio series in the fifties called the Scarlet Pimpernel?

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  They seek him here.

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  They seek him there.

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  Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.

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  They seek him here.

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  They seek him there.

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  Or for that matter, the popular song in the, I think mid sixties.

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  That kind of summarizes my approach to language learning in everything I do.

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  I seek words and structures.

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  I seek them in different contexts and gradually they accumulate in my mind.

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  My goal in language learning is to seek out words and structures and to increase my comprehension.

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  That's the goal.

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  We may have this vague goal of wanting to be fluent in a language,

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  but that's not the daily goal that I have with me in my language learning routine.

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  So let's have a look at my language learning routine.

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  Right now I'm on my 20th language.

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  I started Farsi or Persian.

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  about five years ago at the same time as I started Turkish and Arabic.

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  So in a way,

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  my progress has been somewhat slower than usual

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