Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

Most Myths Are Just Excuses
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t—you’re right.”
—H
ENRY
F
ORD
Language learning is a mentally challenging endeavor. As such, if we’re
sure we can’t, then we lose our motivation, our passion dwindles, our
pessimism takes over, and we simply won’t learn the language. This is not
due to any reason we give but our devotion to that reason.
I hope you see from the previous stories that no matter what challenges
you face, someone else has gone through the same or much worse. If Julie
has the courage to take on so many languages, then how can you fall back
on such weak excuses as being too busy or not having a language gene?
The truth is that passion will get you through every problem if you are
serious about learning a language. There is no excuse good enough to
justify not being able to learn a language. If you didn’t find the reason
holding you back among the twenty I listed, however, it may in fact have an
entire chapter dedicated to it later. And if you are still in doubt about a
particular setback that prevents you from learning a language, check out
fi3m.com/ch–1 and find an even longer version of this list, watch some
inspiring videos, and read stories from other struggling language learners
and suggestions on where you can go for language advice. No matter what
problem you may be facing, someone before you has had the same problem
yet has learned the target language regardless.
Momentum is essential to both beginning and maintaining good
progress in language learning, which is why I wanted to start by clearing

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these major hurdles. Too many language learners focus on the content of a
language and on finding the right courses, but even those who have great
language learning tools and strategies are still at a disadvantage if they
don’t clear these hurdles first.
Now that we’ve got the right attitude and extinguished as many excuses
as possible, we can charge into this language learning project with much
greater momentum.

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CHAPTER 2

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