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<\/a><\/p>\nWe’re all going to face challenges in language learning. The question is whether we’re going to persevere or give up.\u00a0<\/span>Here are the five best reasons I can think of to give up on language learning:<\/span><\/p>\n If you’re looking for a reason to quit, go no further than those five!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When you think about language learning, do you think of yourself as an employee of a business, or as the owner of the business? An employee has no commitment to the business. If there’s work to be done, the employee\u00a0will do it\u2014if<\/em> instructed to do so! If the business fails, it doesn’t matter much to the employee, who can seek employment elsewhere.<\/p>\n The owner, on the other hand, is in a very different position. It’s his\/her livelihood. It’s his\/her way to move forward in life. If the business faces a difficulty\u2014perhaps some crucial component\u00a0is unavailable\u2014the hireling throws up his\/her hands and walks away. The owner, on the other hand, has to find a way to make things work, even in a less than ideal situation.<\/p>\n So which best describes you? In your language study, are you waiting around for someone to tell you what to do? Or are you taking the initiative to make things happen? When you come up with difficulties, is it an excuse to stop working, or does it prompt you to find alternate solutions?<\/span><\/p>\n These are of course rhetorical questions: the <\/span>\u201cright\u201d answer is that we should all be owners. We’re all responsible for our own progress in language learning.<\/span><\/p>\n\n