Consistency and commitment are crucial components in any language study.

While procrastination takes the path of zero effort, language study is easy to put off. Excuses can substitute for effort. And today's goals can become tomorrow's goals...or the hoped-for goals of the day after.

The result? Strings of multiple-missed-practices.

In fact, it is ever so easy to wake up one day and realize that months have lapsed since the last "daily" practice.

Even during college study

Even structured college class study is affected by assignments for other classes, other class projects due, Christmas and Spring Break...weeks of missed study and practice opportunities just flit by.

This is a job for an "Accountability Partner," someone with "high scores on the Nag Meter" can assist you in curing your "slacker study habits."

An Accountability Partner checks with you...really checks up on you...maybe as often as  each day holds you to account.

Of course you can lie and report that you studied or practiced steps toward your language learning goals; but why ask for a Accountability Partner if you intend to "backslide?"

It would also be nice (delightful even) if your Accountability Partner lavished praise and positive reinforcement for your daily language study follow-through. But, even better is the admiring encouragement of a "tough task master" who "hammers you" if you put off your study commitment.

Language Study Lab has the capacity for sending an automated daily E-mail reminder of your study commitment, but a personal Accountability Partner who calls you each day has more motivational power.

Contact Joseph to volunteer as an Accountability Partner:

language.learning.partner at gmail dot com