I used to say, “Lo faccio dopo!” ( I’ll do it later!”). And, then, I never did.

I mean…when I was learning my first foreign language I remember that, at some point, I always used to skip the following practices:

Translation practice

Free writing practice

Speaking practice

Instead, I filled my learning time with…

Reading and listening practices (true/false, multiple choice)

Fill the gaps exercises

Various quizzes that required minimum

writing

Watching videos

Grammar exercises

I loved doing those.

You know why?

Because they were easy and gave me immediate satisfaction.

They were definitely easier than translating, writing or speaking to someone in the foreign language… which I found a bit frustrating!

The truth was that translating, writing and speaking were… work. Uncomfortable work.

Back then, little did I know that that was exactly the work I needed to do in order to learn to how to speak the language.

Because I had reached a point where I could understand the language well, but I couldn’t use it to communicate what I wanted to say… and translating, writing and, of course, speaking were the things that were going to get me there.

So, the work that I was actually doing (with all those quizzes and one word exercises) wasn’t the best kind of work for me…

Actually, today I would call that “procrastilearning”. Meaning, procrastinating the real learning, through learning something!

Do you ever find yourself “procratilearning” when working on your Italian? How does it show up for you?

Ermy***

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