so let's talk about this what motivates
you to learn new languages and how do
you also stay motivated
because what happens with me at least and
I think with a lot of people as well is that
sometimes you reach a certain level and
maybe you're already confident
with the language but you hit a plateau and you feel
that you're not progressing that quickly anymore. What do you do to stay motivated? [Jacob] So to answer your
first question what happened is that I
used to be really interested in
Geography, like, when I was a bit younger I
would love countries, provinces, states
capitals, I would just try to learn all of them. I would use this website called "Sporcle" where I would
just try to identify whichever
country fits in the map, which continent
it goes to, and I would like to identify
[Gabriel] Sounds like a good website [Jacob] I would love to, I like to
identify different flags, like ok, this flag is Barbados or Canada whatever and with that I thought why
don't I try maybe learning the
language of someplace, because I
really like culture and festivals and
dancing and music, right? [Gabriel] so it was really the culture
that and the interest for geography and culture
that has started building that
motivation to learn new languages? Ok, cool [Jacob] and I started learning Spanish and it would also help because
my step mom is Chilean so I can understand Spanish quite well even though I don't
speak much of it [Gabriel] but if you were to
pick it up a bit
practice it a bit maybe watch more
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[Jacob] yeah I think with my French background [Gabriel] and with Portuguse as well [Jacob] Spanish would be easy
[Gabriel] "Podemos practicar" (we can practice) someday, [Jacob] of course [Gabriel] that's cool [Jacob] Vámonos (let's) and so what happened was 
so to answer your second question I always try to
remember the languages I use so I try
to find people, like a language
exchange or I go to, I go online
I used to use this website called Live Mocha [Gabriel] ok, cool [Jacob] you know
[Gabriel] I've heard about it but actually I use
mylanguageexchange.com normally
I met a lot of cool people in it
I've heard of another application called Hello Talk or something like that [Gabriel] I heard about it as well
There's a lot of them now. [Jacob] There's a lot of applications. [Gabriel] Where you can find people
So basically then, when you... When you're losing a bit of motivation you like to find
people and then start chatting with them again just
rebuild that... rekindle the fire within
[Jacob] yes I usually go to language classes
for my languages and once I'm done 
[Gabriel] ok, like in university? [Jacob] no, in language schools
[Gabriel] cool, ok. [Jacob] so once I'm usually
done with that and there's no more way of progressing
I like to find people so I can just
practice like friends or getting into
a relationship is a really good idea. [Gabriel] getting
into a relationship with a person from that
country that you're...
[Jacob] exactly, of course. You can practice every single day, all the time, you hear it, you practice it, they correct your mistakes 
and it's just great [Gabriel] true, true but
what I find interesting as well is that a lot of times
that people get into a relationship with
a person from let's say a Canadian gets...
starts a relationship with someone from Germany
and he or she start learning German but then they start
speaking English all the time. That's... I think that can be a problem. but it's kinda cool when the other person is
also kind of learning your language
still, right? And then do you actually kind
of forced to speak more of their language
then it's, it's pretty pretty cool but I do agree with you of course. It helps! It helps, of course.
It helps! It helps, of course.
Ok so, do you also do your learning online outside of
class rooms like outside as well as
outside of interactions with people or
do you primarily learn languages in
the classroom and then apply that
chatting with people [Jacob] for online
what I like to do I do this rarely but
what I do is that I... I still find
people online but I don't chat with them
like, I send them messages and then they correct my grammar or my mistakes and if they
need help with their language I can do that as well
[Gabriel] Nice, so it's kind of a language exchange but mostly just written? [Jacob] yeah, just written [Gabriel] ok, cool. I think 
need help with their language I can do that as well
[Gabriel] Nice, so it's kind of a language exchange but mostly just written? 
[Jacob] yeah, just written [Gabriel] ok, cool. I think 
on this website that I use (mylanguageexchange.com) they have that option as well, like just email or whatever
