17/05/2026
I often hear, โI want to learn English!โ but โฆ.โฆ โI just canโt get it,โ โI donโt understand it,โ โI have no talent for languages,โ โI donโt have the money,โ โI donโt have the time,โ and so on.
As psychology says, there is no such thing as โI canโtโ โ there is only โI donโt want to,โ often for hidden reasons, or โIโm afraid.โ And this applies to learning languages as well.
After I started studying psychology and language coaching professionally, the issue of internal problems and mental blocks became even more interesting to me to learn about. Moreover, I have had many coaching sessions with students in order to help them work through these very blocks.
Over many years of teaching English, I noticed that the root cause of the so-called โdifficultyโ of learning a language is psychological barriers. There can be many reasons for them, varying from person to person depending on personal beliefs and mental โframeworks.โ In children, these โframeworksโ and blocks are most often established by parents, since children at a certain age do not yet have their very own view of the world.
Of course, new beginnings are always scary. This also applies to learning a new language.
The fear of looking foolish by making mistakes, or the fear of speaking with strangers or foreigners โ all of these can be confusing and create a real psychological block.
Letโs try to understand some of these reasons.
๐ First of all, I would probably put the fear of making mistakes at the top of the list, because it greatly slows down the learning process for both children and adults. For some reason, many people think they must do everything perfectly at the first time and without any mistakes, but that simply does not happen when learning a language. Yes, IT DOES NOT HAPPEN. You cannot learn to run without first learning to walk. And remember (or just watch small children) how many times they fall before they learn not only to walk, but even to stand up on their feet.
We will continue to talk about it in the next posts
Stay tuned ๐ฌ๐ง
