I’ve found myself taking a small break from Memrise during the holidays and tadaaa: it turned out to be a break of a months or so.
I try to have motivation every day, but I just hate that the streak disappears after only one day of not using.
I am in love with Memrise and learn a lot from my French course, but getting motivated is hard because its so easy not to click on the app.
What do you guys do to use Memrise every day? At which time of your days?
Got any tips?
Much Love,
Jolijn
Well. What I’m doing is trying to achieve 60,000+ a day on Korean 1, as it will eventually get me to top 10. I’ve got 1,600,000 from this. I also create groups with other users and just see what we can get in a moth, or week. A little competition does the job.
Motivation is a cheap, fleeting feeling usually I think. Discipline is gold. My advice is to write down a doable schedule and treat it like a work schedule, and then show up even if you don’t want to. After a week or two it should ‘just click’ and then you’ll be on your way again. Good luck =)
Well for me, I’m a tad addicted to memrise… So that is how I keep motivated, lol.
Although, on days when I don’t have much time and I’m just too tired to learn any new words, either when I’m waiting for food to cook, or watching a tv series/movie I’ll do a bit of memrise at the same time, just reviewing words. Even if it just 5 minutes.
I find a lot of people say they don’t have the time while looking through social media things/doing there other hobbies, which I have done myself some times, you just lose track of time. But if you do that you just have to force yourself not too, or study first then look at social media or do your hobbies.
But at the same time don’t let the learning become a chore, still make sure you are enjoying your learning and remember why you decided to start learning.
I’ve read before that writing down your reasons for your learning and putting that list up somewhere where you can see it everyday can help keep you motivated.
Also, making goals for your learning (little and big) can help keep you motivated. Ie; for me:
BIG GOALS:
— Take the JLPT N5 - N1 exams
— Go to Japan
— Hold a fluent conversation with a Japanese person
MEDIUM GOALS:
— Learn the JLPT N5 vocab/grammar, then on the N4, N3 etc
— Start basic conversations on apps like italki with Japanese people
SMALL GOALS:
— Try to learn 5-50 words/grammar points a day
— Speak out loud when learning words to get used to speaking Japanese
My goal list is broke down much more than this but this is just an example, I try and have little daily goals as well for learning.
I find breaking down big goals into smaller goals always helps, even if a goal in life seems really simple, I all ways break it down to several smaller things, as that way when you are ticking those things of you feel as you are progressing constantly to what you want to achieve.
Also, don’t beat yourself up about having breaks, what I’d do is schedule in breaks from studying, for me I learn new words and review on weekdays, then on weekends I only review words if I get time, and usually force myself to have Sunday off.
Wow, you’ve been far more helpful than me. lol. But I’m also planning to go to Japan in the future. Would be a nice experience. But since no-one speaks English there. I’m devoted to Japanese now. 
. Good luck with your goals @tampora !
Wow thanks! This is really helpful. Yes, I can scroll through social media for hours but not open my memrise.
I will start making goals right now. Your way of doing it seems really useful.
Fun fact: one of my goals was to go to Paris again sometime and I actually booked a spontaneous trip to Paris yesterday. 
so that’s where I’ll be in two weeks.
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