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Hi. Today I want to talk a little bit about time management in the context of learning your second language.

So many people basically want to learn a language but don’t spend any time at all on it, and then tomorrow they need to talk to somebody in their new language so they spend a lot of time today trying to swat it up, or maybe they’re doing an exam, and they wait until maybe two days before the exam and they swat up in order to pass the exam. Well this is a very, very bad way to learn anything, and especially a language.

Why am I standing here today beside this really beautiful, fabulous tree? Well there’s a story behind this. Twenty five years ago I came to this very spot and I personally planted a little ‘1:00’ tree, just this high. Got it from the seedling yard, and brought it over and stuck it in the ground. And over a period of twenty five years of sun and rain, this tree has turned into a fabulous specimen here behind me. And it’s just an example that some things take time. You need to have patience, you need to allow it to grow, you need to spend a little bit of time every day. So when you’re learning your second language every day, five, ten minutes is going to be so much better than trying to do four hours on one particular day.

Just recently a client of Kung-Fu English called me and she said she was having trouble with the program, because she couldn’t find an hour a day to learn. So I asked her how did she get home. And she said by bus, and told me that it took about ten minutes every day for her to get home. So I told her to use that time to just listen to a little bit of English with the Kung-Fu English program, so she started doing that. And about two months later she called me and she was very excited because she had built enough confidence and enough content that she was understanding things better, she was saying things better, and she began to find more time to do more.

So, after just a short period of time, having planted the seed, her little tree was getting bigger. And after a few more months, with the rain and the sun, spending a little bit of time every day, working on her English, she got very, very good. So that’s the secret. Something every day; five, ten minutes, whatever you can find, is going to help you learn much, much more effectively than trying to crush it into a five hour period every couple of months.