What To Do When You Feel Angry While Learning Greek

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Are You Getting Angry while learning Greek?

Something I discuss very frequently with my students is that they feel angry while learning Greek. They find difficult to memorize new and old words, the lack of confidence when they try to say their first sentences when they are in Greece and how big the mountain of mastering Greek seems to their eyes.

This talk is part of my job, I do it every week.

And I am not shy to bring the word “anger” on the table. Students feel anger when they cannot memorize new and old words. This feeling is absolutely normal, pure anger in the learning process is a real and abolutely normal thing.

Everyone, every person you admire, feels anger at one point or another.

There are many mechanisms we can work on in order to help ourselves, not to overcome the issue, but to walk together with it.

We will not overcome anger, we want to work with it. I love anger! Anger is life! We have demonized this feeling and everybody wants to avoid it, because nobody likes have a negative feeling! But anger can move mountains, and don’t forget! All the revolutions started with the feeling of anger.

More than a teacher, I love being a student. This is a thing I practice every day and I really enjoy it. It really gives my life good quality time, entertainment and joy, but also, let’s be honest, it helps me as a teacher and that’s why I do it. I am trying to find ways for me to get out in order to help others get out together with me.

I experiment, a lot.

All these years trying to find solutions in the problems of learning, I reached the conclusion that when we decide to commit to the path of learning something, we get the role of a wild animal that we, ourselves try to tame. You will have this feeling over and over again. You are trying to tame a wild animal, and this wild animal is you. But the deepest thing here is that in reality you don’t practice the language.

You practice your patience. You work, you cultivate yourself and you create a new self that creates the mechanisms of a person who learns seriously a language.

Think about it.

It is about creating a new self. A person who has created the mechanisms of learning seriously another language.

Another conclusion I have reached is that inhaling knowledge is exactly the same as nutrition.

We feed ourselves with knowledge. But you know, we never eat with the hope that we will never be hungry again.

Forgetting is a normal function of our mind. In reality it is a function of our brain that keeps us sane. The brain takes thousands of information every day and it perceives all of them as information for our survival. But our brain’s job is to keep us alive and sane, that’s why it “forgets” the information it assumes it is not important for our survival. The brain cannot classify the information as “a must stay information or not”. We must find the way to give the message to our brain that “We need this”.

Learning something new is something that moves. We never learn anything with the impression I will never forget it.

Forgetting is normal function of the brain.

If you don’t accept that, you add an extra, irresponsible frustration to yourself. Learn with this as part of it.

Forgetting is a normal function of the brain and it has nothing to do with my ability to learn.

Keep in mind that you also need to take care of your health when you want to memorize things better. Take care of your iron and make sure you get vitamins from your food. I know first hand that with low iron and no vitamins we make the learning process a lot heavier.

The idea is not only to learn Greek, the idea is to create a new self that makes it easier to learn not only Greek but also everything you want in yourlife.

Angry while learning Greek?

Yes! And we love it! Because now you know how to tame the wild animal that tells you to stop.

This is how we do it.

Respect and admire yourself for what you are doing.

I am sure you are doing better than you think.

Now, if you don’t practice even 30 minutes a week, don’t complain about the work you don’t do. We need to be real in order to make our lives better.

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With Respect,

Teacher, Podcaster & CopyWriter @ MyGreekTeacher.com

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2. you can have a look at adult classes and we can arrange an online coffee so as to have all the time to reply to all your questions and then you can decide if what I do is a good fit for you or not.
3. “Learn Greek without a Teacher” podcast, if you want to be a self-taught learner. It is perfect for complete beginners and those who want material to revise.