How to Handle Doubts at the Intermediate Level

Your language journey is progressing. But can you really keep it going this way?

There we go. The excitement you had to study every day is gone. The months you’ve put in have all merged into a blur.

Grammar. Vocabulary. Examples. Explanations. Feedback. Listening. Reading. Writing. Talking. Grammar. Vocabulary…

The list keeps on getting repeated over and over again. The results are becoming less and less obvious. You’ve gotten in love with the language and culture but somehow, you’re losing track.

Why am I not improving? Why do I keep repeating the same mistakes? What am I doing wrong? Is it still worth studying? Should I just enjoy my current level and call it a day? How did others become so good?

The intermediate stage of a language-learning journey brings a whole lot of questions. And they all come to the same overall one.

The intermediate stage is where the language starts making sense. The total lack of comprehension you had at first is gone. You understand how it is constructed. You recognize patterns. You grasp the overall meaning of more and more sentences. Conversations are still a struggle sometimes but you can handle quite a few topics already.

But you doubt yourself. You wonder too much. And you reluctantly push away study sessions, hating yourself for doing so.

Doubts are worse than failure for one main reason. They provoke inaction. As you keep on pondering, you end up spending time on a task without a real solution.

It’s human nature to doubt. But if you’ve reached such a stage, it means you’ve put in the work. You’ve kept at it for a while. You’ve done more than most people. You haven’t given up.

Are you going to give up now then?

I’ve got good news for you. With 3 simple steps, you can get back into the right mindset. You can give your journey a new breath. A new “start”.

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