Language Learning is Boring

The truth about why your French lessons aren’t paying off

Cliffs at Pourville (1882) by Claude Monet. Original from the National Gallery of Art. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. In the public domain — CC0

It’s cool to be the guy that can strike up a conversation with the strangers having a conversation in a foreign tongue — in their own language. That was one of the biggest motivating factors for me to learn Japanese. That and watching One Piece without subtitles.