Yes, I can!

I'm in a "Yes, I can do it!" mood today.

No sweat!

It's all about control. You need to have control over your learning. Get the best tools possible at your disposal: internet, texts, ipod, srs systems, teachers, whatever, and control your use of them.

A word comes up in your book, you've heard it before on your ipod: Put that track back on the ipod for tomorrow.

You're reading jokes online, you get bored: Switch to that long article about Mao Zedong you were trying to get through. Enough of that, back to the SRS.

Time is filled with learning. Control is important because control gives you confidence, and a consequence of confidence is concentration. When you are concentrating, it is much easier to take things in. You can pay attention to the material easily, and notice what is going on, making it all much easier to retain.

My new 4 step approach to language learning:

control = confidence = concentration = retention

How good is that? Do I need to take a patent out on this? What do you think?