web02.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:03:48 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Fluent Show - Episodes Tagged with “Frustration” https://www.fluent.show/tags/frustration Mon, 03 Sep 2018 07:30:00 +0100 Learn a Language...Or Maybe Three! The Fluent Show is on a mission to help you get excited about language learning. We learn languages every day in our lives, and have learnt over 15 different languages between us. We share stories, news, tips, and ideas that will make you fluent...eventually. Subscribe to the show today to get your regular dose of Fluent love. It is worth clarifying that we actively want to support anti-racism and will highlight and advocate for the equality of all. Language learning means committing to tolerance of other world views, and this open mind is a core value for me. This topic deserves well considered words so here are the best Kerstin managed to put together. (https://www.fluent.show/blacklivesmatter) en-gb episodic A Podcast About Loving, Living and Learning Languages Kerstin Cable Learn a Language...Or Maybe Three! The Fluent Show is on a mission to help you get excited about language learning. We learn languages every day in our lives, and have learnt over 15 different languages between us. We share stories, news, tips, and ideas that will make you fluent...eventually. Subscribe to the show today to get your regular dose of Fluent love. It is worth clarifying that we actively want to support anti-racism and will highlight and advocate for the equality of all. Language learning means committing to tolerance of other world views, and this open mind is a core value for me. This topic deserves well considered words so here are the best Kerstin managed to put together. (https://www.fluent.show/blacklivesmatter) no languages, language learning, education, polyglot, multilingual, language class, fluent, duolingo, fluency Kerstin Cable kerstin@fluentlanguage.co.uk Help! Frustration And Mental Blocks Are Destroying My Confidence! https://www.fluent.show/102 e0416451-f341-40d3-98eb-eec89a443a8a Mon, 03 Sep 2018 07:30:00 +0100 Kerstin Cable full Kerstin Cable Today on the show, I have got a bag of tips to help you boost your language confidence and power through when you get stuck. Listener Simon from Dublin wrote a great email full of examples of his own mental blocks, so we’re going to dive into that in just a minute. 36:11 no Listeners, this is a big question and let me tell you I wrote several pages of notes to answer it. Listener Simon from Dublin was feeling a MAJOR case of frustration and wrote in to the show. Here's some of what he said: Sometimes I just cannot seem to lock down a concept in the language I'm learning, no matter how much I try. These mental blocks can be demotivating. They force me to use simpler sentences than I know I can produce. They make me feel uncertain when trying to express certain concepts, and they can cause frustration when they seem like they're always going to be stopping my progress. Sometimes these blocks are the reason a person thinks they're not good at learning languages. Frustration In Language Learning There's a truth about learning any language: Frustration is real and it's normal and it's extemely ennoying! Once you start to feel it, you have reached a new stage of growth...expect to be frustrated for a few years. Frustration's good sides are: * It's a sign that you care. * It pushes you to re-commit to the process of learning a language. You cannot really eliminate all of this and fix every mental block, but you can REDUCE and EMBRACE the frustration. Here's how to do it: 1) Change your outlook. The mental blocks are not hindering your progress. They ARE your progress. 2) Deal with the practical challenges one by one, not all at once. 3) Cut out comparison. Where you are right now is fantastic, and it's important to examine the source of your high expectations. 4) Set the best possible goals for yourself by leveraging the Zone of Proximal Development - not the Panic Zone! frustration language learning https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/9/9103f3da-a263-4bfe-b5a3-58649ff9b5f7/WPdmuj-8.PNG More about all this in the episode - click play and I hope you'll find it helpful. Thank you to Stephen for this episode introduction and to kick-ass language learning app Clozemaster (http://www.clozemaster.com/fluentshow) for supporting this show. learning, fluency, language learning, language lessons, tutoring, self-improvement, frustration, growth, psychology, self-teaching Listeners, this is a big question and let me tell you I wrote several pages of notes to answer it. Listener Simon from Dublin was feeling a MAJOR case of frustration and wrote in to the show. Here's some of what he said:

Sometimes I just cannot seem to lock down a concept in the language I'm learning, no matter how much I try.

These mental blocks can be demotivating. They force me to use simpler sentences than I know I can produce. They make me feel uncertain when trying to express certain concepts, and they can cause frustration when they seem like they're always going to be stopping my progress. Sometimes these blocks are the reason a person thinks they're not good at learning languages.

Frustration In Language Learning

There's a truth about learning any language: Frustration is real and it's normal and it's extemely ennoying! Once you start to feel it, you have reached a new stage of growth...expect to be frustrated for a few years.

Frustration's good sides are:

  • It's a sign that you care.
  • It pushes you to re-commit to the process of learning a language.

You cannot really eliminate all of this and fix every mental block, but you can REDUCE and EMBRACE the frustration.

Here's how to do it:
1) Change your outlook. The mental blocks are not hindering your progress. They ARE your progress.
2) Deal with the practical challenges one by one, not all at once.
3) Cut out comparison. Where you are right now is fantastic, and it's important to examine the source of your high expectations.
4) Set the best possible goals for yourself by leveraging the Zone of Proximal Development - not the Panic Zone!

frustration language learning

More about all this in the episode - click play and I hope you'll find it helpful.

Thank you to Stephen for this episode introduction and to kick-ass language learning app Clozemaster for supporting this show.

Sponsored By:

Links:

]]> Listeners, this is a big question and let me tell you I wrote several pages of notes to answer it. Listener Simon from Dublin was feeling a MAJOR case of frustration and wrote in to the show. Here's some of what he said:

Sometimes I just cannot seem to lock down a concept in the language I'm learning, no matter how much I try.

These mental blocks can be demotivating. They force me to use simpler sentences than I know I can produce. They make me feel uncertain when trying to express certain concepts, and they can cause frustration when they seem like they're always going to be stopping my progress. Sometimes these blocks are the reason a person thinks they're not good at learning languages.

Frustration In Language Learning

There's a truth about learning any language: Frustration is real and it's normal and it's extemely ennoying! Once you start to feel it, you have reached a new stage of growth...expect to be frustrated for a few years.

Frustration's good sides are:

  • It's a sign that you care.
  • It pushes you to re-commit to the process of learning a language.

You cannot really eliminate all of this and fix every mental block, but you can REDUCE and EMBRACE the frustration.

Here's how to do it:
1) Change your outlook. The mental blocks are not hindering your progress. They ARE your progress.
2) Deal with the practical challenges one by one, not all at once.
3) Cut out comparison. Where you are right now is fantastic, and it's important to examine the source of your high expectations.
4) Set the best possible goals for yourself by leveraging the Zone of Proximal Development - not the Panic Zone!

frustration language learning

More about all this in the episode - click play and I hope you'll find it helpful.

Thank you to Stephen for this episode introduction and to kick-ass language learning app Clozemaster for supporting this show.

Sponsored By:

Links:

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