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As a pessimist, you might view language learning as hard work—and you’re not wrong.
Language acquisition requires effort, repetition, and managing confusion.

Here’s the beautiful part: Pessimists tend to manage disappointment better than idealists.
When you anticipate difficulty, you're less likely to be devastated by it.

In psychological terms, this creates cognitive resilience—the ability to stay in the game even when things go wrong. You expect challenges. You face them head-on. You recover faster because you weren’t expecting ease.

You might never say, “I’m going to be fluent in a year.” That’s okay.
But you might say, “I’m going to keep learning, even if progress is slow.”
And that is the spirit of persistence.
Don’t try to change who you are. Just learn to steer with it.
Pessimism doesn’t mean you’re giving up—it means you’re prepared to endure.
And that, my dear listener, is what long-term success looks like.


111 Tips for Learning a Language 

Tip 65 - How Pessimism Builds Resilience in Language Learning

speaker: 
俞敏洪Yú Mǐnhóng   新东方教育集团创始人，英语教学与管理专家。
Yu Minhong, or Michael Yu is the founder and president of New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc.. As the owner of one of the largest private educational services, Yu is known as the "richest teacher in China", and "Godfather of English Training".
script: 
城市孩子上不了大学，对城市孩子影响不是那么大。但是农村孩子上不了大学，其实他就变成一辈子农民了。我觉得一个农民的孩子如果说能上上正规的大学的话，对他来说，扩大他的视野也好；扩大他对这个世界的理解以及人脉关系也好；以及他的自我认知也好，一定是有大大的好处。我相信进了大学整体来说命运总会变得更好。因为人们的想法是被观念改变的。那能够改变观念的人最好的地方就是大学。那他只要考上大学，哪怕是三本，是吧？那他大学四年给他的磨练；带来的眼光、感觉、格局肯定就不一样的。那个时候他再回到农村,他可能就变成农村的创业者，或者是变成农村中间最有想法的人。我觉得想法是改变世界的基础。
高考   gāo kǎo   College Entrance Examination
命运   mìng yùn  n. 1.destiny ；fate；lot  悲惨的命运a tragic lot
                   2.trend of development；tendency of change  国家的命运
eg.他想要掌握自己的命运。He wants to be in control of his own destiny.
      我们是自己命运的主人。We are masters of our own destiny.
translation:
Being able to go to university or not has little effect on students from cities. But for students from rural areas, if they don't go to college, they will be lifelong farmers.
I think it would be good for a peasant's child to expand his horizons, understanding of the world， connections, and self-perception if he went to a proper university.
I think going to college will change your destiny. Because people's thoughts are changed by perspective. College is the best place to build a new perspective. As long as you can get into a university, even if it is just a third-class university. Four years of college life will change his new ideas and views. Then he goes back to the countryside, and he may start his own business, or he may become the most thoughtful person there. I think ideas are fundamental to changing the world.

One Minute Chinese—— Celebrity speeches & interviews with Chinese & English script

10.俞敏洪：高考，农村孩子“改变”命运的唯一机会 Gaokao is the only chance for rural students to change their destiny.

わたしの母の好きなことばです。
今日は母と、わたしが好きなことばについてお話します。

Do you know the Japanese word "Bijin-hakumei"?
It is my mother's favorite word.
Today I'm talking about my mother's and my favorite phrases.

Plain Japanese Podcast やさしい にほんご ポッドキャスト

#7 母とわたしの好きなことば

以前(yǐ qián)、以来(yǐ lái)、以内(yǐ nèi)、以后 (yǐ hòu) are 4 common phrase we often use in Chinese, they all start with 以 and followed by 前(front)、来(come)、内(inside) and后(behind), do you know what do they mean and how to use it in a sentence or conversation?  In this episode I will show you some examples to help you understand better:

Learn Chinese with Jen

以前、以内、以后、以来

안녕하세요. Hello~
한국어 듣기 수업 시작해요. Let's start with the Korean listening class.
선생님 읽어요. I read it.
잘 들으세요. Please listen well.

I posted the sentences on my blog.
https://blog.naver.com/laramcraft/222719581016
https://youtu.be/iWRjF-e-B7Y

The basics are important.
It is also good to check the basics of 한글 Hangeul before this listening class.
1-1. Korean alphabet - Vowels 모음 - What is Hangeul?
https://youtu.be/0YzhJ9p2lcs
2-1. Korean alphabet - Consonants 자음 -What are the consonants 자음?
https://youtu.be/lckgvQ_vreA
3-1. Korean alphabet - Final Consonants 받침 - What are the final consonants 받침?
https://youtu.be/sLlFmG30fNI

This is a class to listen to Korean conversational sentences.
In this voice recording for listening,
After reading many sentences with Korean grammar in Korean conversation sentences,
Check out how much you understand the sentences with a voice recording.
Never look at the sentences when listening to the voice recording.
And listen to the sentence repeatedly until you hear it completely.

You are listening to the Sejong Korean conversation. (세종학당)
There are four books in total. (Korean conversation, 1, 2, 3, 4.)
It consists of 1st and 2nd courses for beginners and 1st and 2nd courses for intermediate.
Each course is conducted in 14 units. (2 grammar - for each unit.)
This listening class you are taking is Korean Conversation 1. (Beginner 1)
Please listen carefully.

Korean Listening Class 한국어 문장 듣기 - Korean teacher, Grace

Updated-Korean Conversation 1. (Beginner 1) - Lesson 4. Part 1 에 있다/없다 (에 있어요/없어요),   Part 2 의

Japanese Podcast for Beginners|| きれいな アイスティー | VERY VERY EASY Native JAPANESE!

♯１８
アイスティーを つくりました。
と～っても いい かおりが して、きれいです✨
CMの アイスティーみたいです！

📖きょうの おはなし
「きれいな アイスティー」
00:00 こおり
00:34 こうちゃ
00:45 コップ
01:35 こおりが できました
02:25 アイスティー
02:45 ネコの ゲンブガンちゃん



Q．みなさんも もう つめたい のみものを のんでいますか。


🦔🍎　ちょっと むずかしい ことば・ぶん　🍅🦔
It is useful to copy and paste words you don't understand into the translation‼ Microsoft Translator / Google Translator: You can also check the reading of kanji‼‼

１））こおり 00:00 
・氷
・作る
・アイスティー
・ひとつひとつ
・ゆっくり
・水
・入れる
・こぼれる
・ゆっくり入れなければ（いけません。）水がこぼれてしまう
・冷凍庫（freezer）

【grammar check!】
①ところだ ②Volitional Form＋と思う ③ていく ④なければいけません ⑤てしまう


２））こうちゃ 00:34
・紅茶（black tea）
・濃い

【grammar check!】
①Nが できる〈be completed/finished〉 


３））コップ 00:45
・今度*
・コップ
・選ぶ
・長い⇔短い
・中（なか）
・大きい⇔小さい
・飲むところ
・細い
・あまり～ない
・どちらが いいかな？？
・決める

*This ``こんど（今度）'' is used to mean ``つぎ（次）''
Example）「こんどのでんしゃはとうきょうえきまでとまりません（今度の電車は東京まで止まりません）」The next train won't stop until Tokyo Station..

【grammar check!】
①Potential verb/ V- dictionary form ことが できる 


４））こおりができました 01:35 
・取る
・取り出す
・硬い
・なかなか～ない
・入る　はいる
・カラン（onomatopoeia）
・音
・最後に
・ひとつ、ふたつ、みっつ、よっつ、いつつ、むっつ、ななつ、やっつ


【grammar check!】
①Nができる〈be completed/finished〉 ②なければいけない ③reasonて、 ④Potential verb 


５））アイスティー 02:25 
・うわぁ
・CM（しーえむ、commercial）
・匂い
・香り

【grammar check!】
①Nが できる〈be completed/finished〉 ②みたいだ ③〈Sensation that the speaker has perceived: voice, sound, smell, taste etc...〉が する* 
*"Minna no Nihongo Elementary Japanese 2 Translation & Grammar Notes-English" p.139


６））ネコのゲンブガンちゃん 02:45
・一人で
・冷たい
・いただく
・飲み物
・ドリンク（drink）
・もうすぐ
・夏


【grammar check!】
①Verb stem＋に 来る ②ては いけない（ちゃ いけない）③Potential verb 


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Japanese! わたしの いろいろな はなし

きれいな アイスティー

Verónica es una persona con parálisis cerebral, de nacimiento, pero nunca ha tenido una parálisis emocional, nunca una “parálisis de corazón” y eso se lo notaba en cada mili segundo que he compartido con ella.  