{"id":3242,"date":"2015-04-06T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2020-10-02T12:27:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:27:39","slug":"there-are-no-rainy-days-in-language-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2015\/04\/06\/there-are-no-rainy-days-in-language-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are No Rainy Days in Language Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itchyfeetcomic.com\/2011\/03\/le-weathere.html#.VRhevzuUdCA\" aria-label=\"9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\"  alt=\"Itchy Feet: Le Weath\u00e9re\" width=\"550\" height=\"397\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tx6DD7YiVwk\/UiYtdSwhiVI\/AAAAAAAABZo\/4a-1kvbEjhs\/s1600\/9.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many aspects of our lives are ruled by that which we simply cannot control. Try as we might, our fervent honking has no noticeable influence on traffic jams on the way to work; shouting at the television does not, in fact, sway the football match in our favor; and as our unfortunate would-be weekender in the comic above well knows, there\u2019s remarkably little we\u2019re able to do about the weather.<\/p>\n<p>As such, there are many times when we must simply shrug our shoulders, smile, and wait for our luck to improve. No sense in sweating over what we can\u2019t control, right? Right.<\/p>\n<p>But in language learning, there are no rainy days!<\/p>\n<p>You might not be able to keep up your daily workout if you\u2019ve got a cold, or if you sprained your ankle. You won\u2019t be able to practice your guitar if the E string broke and the shops are closed. It\u2019ll be hard to go camping in the woods if that forest fire hasn\u2019t abated yet.<\/p>\n<p>But no Act of God is going to be able to keep you from developing your skills in a new language! You\u2019ve got no excuse, I\u2019m afraid. It\u2019s 100% in your control.<\/p>\n<p>Rainy day? Phone up a foreign friend or snuggle under the covers with Skype! Sore throat, can\u2019t talk? Read that book of original language poetry you\u2019ve been putting off! Stuck in rush hour traffic? Listen to foreign radio! Condemned to solitary confinement in the local prison for bad behavior? Scrawl those conjugation tables on the padded walls! Practice makes perfect, after all.<\/p>\n<p>The point is, there\u2019s always some way you can be working towards fluency, come rain or shine, hell or high water. You may be able to devote three hours a day to drilling adjective endings, or it might just be a coffee with a tandem partner for half an hour. <a title=\"Not Improving? Wrong.\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2015\/03\/30\/not-improving-wrong\/\">Every little bit helps<\/a>, trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/04\/9-1-350x253.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/04\/9-1-350x253.png 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/04\/9-1.png 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Many aspects of our lives are ruled by that which we simply cannot control. Try as we might, our fervent honking has no noticeable influence on traffic jams on the way to work; shouting at the television does not, in fact, sway the football match in our favor; and as our unfortunate would-be weekender in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/2015\/04\/06\/there-are-no-rainy-days-in-language-learning\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":4457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[542801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived-posts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/language-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}