Welcome to the Listening Time podcast.
Hey everybody, this is Connor and you're listening to episode 137 of the Listening Time podcast.
I hope you're all doing well with your English learning.
I hope that these episodes have helped you improve your listening, and I hope you can find time in your daily life to do a little bit of listening practice every day, or almost every day.
I know that it can be hard to always stick to your plan to practice English every day.
I know it takes discipline, but you will see the benefits over time.
And speaking of discipline, this is the topic that I want to talk about today's episode.
Discipline can mean a few different things.
There are different usages of this word, but when I say discipline in this context, I'm talking about self discipline.
A definition could be the ability to pursue something, maintain something, or improve in some way while correcting and regulating yourself despite the temptation to abandon this.
That's a long definition, but I wanted to give you a sense of what I'm talking about when I say discipline.
So when I say that you want to have discipline in your language learning, I'm talking about being able to learn a language, pursue this goal and continue to make yourself do it.
Even if you don't always feel motivated or you're not in the mood, you wanna continue on this right path and correct yourself and regulate your behavior so that you continue to learn this language.
So that's what I mean when I say discipline.
So I wanna talk about that today and we'll talk about some different things that require discipline in your life.
So this should be a good and helpful topic for everyone.
And before we start, remember that if you're having trouble understanding native speakers when they speak fast, then make sure to join my membership so you can get my specialized listening training so I can help you understand those difficult sound patterns that you hear when native speakers speak really fast and reduce their speech.
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