The 3-part routine that helped me learn 20+ languages

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  I don't have time for language learning.

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  I hear that all the time.

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  People tell me, you know, I would love to learn Spanish or some other language,

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  but I just don't have time.

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  So I want to share with you my experience

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  because I have been learning languages sort of not in a language school for most of the last 60 years.

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  And I want to share my routine and why I think it works and why recent things that I've discovered about how the brain learns confirms to me that this is the best way to organize your day.

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  How do you organize your day to find the time to effectively learn languages

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  while doing other things like working,

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  for example?

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  Now, right now I'm retired, so I have no obligation to work.

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  However,

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  most of my language learning of the last 60 years has been while I have been working at other jobs,

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  so...

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  I like to divide the day into three sort of compartments,

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  corresponding to different things happening during the day and the sort of receptivity of the brain to receive different kinds of language inputs.

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  In the morning, my brain is freshest.

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  And therefore, in the morning, I listen.

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  It's also the easiest thing to do.

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  My brain isn't bothered by things that I don't understand or things that are fuzzy.

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