Do you have a language mentor?

[True2marie]

Mentoring is key to succeeding in many ares of life. Finding a person to lead you in something they have accomplished helps you weather many pitfalls. So, do you have a language mentor?

For a while, I had an old teacher who assisted me. She made me see that being fluent in Spanish wasn't an impossible task.

[MyDigitalpoint]

I had a mentor too, but while attending secondary school.

She was my language teacher at class, and my tutor out of school. She was a senior woman but with more enthusiasm than any other younger teacher I ever had.

I really thank her for helping me out

[dejongkimberlee]

When I was in school I did have a Spanish mentor outside of my regular teacher. My mentor gave me extra help with pronunciation that my teacher couldn't. I definitely suggest mentors to everyone

[Alrikidokie]

I'm learning Japanese in a classroom structure so you could say that my professor is my mentor, however, there's no one on one interaction on a personal level. I would love to have a more one on one mentoring type situation though.

[xxxxxx]

I am learning Hangeul and my mentor is my Korean husband. Everyday since I came into their country he is all support to me in order that I will learn easily. Although our means of conversation everyday is English because he is fluent to it even though he is a Korean we see to it that I will learn also their language. Aside from that he prepared some home tutorial videos teaching the pronunciation techniques so that when I go to school this coming February I had already a background of some of its basic words and phrases.

[NRiz]

No mentor for me. Rather I use the internet to find different learning resources. To keep motivated I use a website called www.chains.cc where you add a link to a chain everyday you complete a task. Websites and forums like linguaholic are nice to hear about different peoples strategies for learning. Also I can discuss anything that I would with a mentor on a forum like this one. It's a wonderful age in time that we're living in.

[mareebaybay]

I don't have a language mentor, but I certainly wish I had one. I mean a language mentor would definitely be beneficial to my learning process. Not only would it help me learn languages faster it would also help me be efficient. A language mentor would also more than likely keep me motivated.

[JessiFox]

Unfortunately I'm in the mentor-less camp, though I definitely would love to have one. I find it's so much easier to learn either in a classroom setting or with the structure of an actual teacher, at the very least. I'm doing it on my own for now, though.

[xxxxxx]

I am learning Hangeul and my mentor is my Korean husband. Everyday since I came into their country he is all support to me in order that I will learn easily. Although our means of conversation everyday is English because he is fluent to it even though he is a Korean we see to it that I will learn also their language. Aside from that he prepared some home tutorial videos teaching the pronunciation techniques so that when I go to school this coming February I had already a background of some of its basic words and phrases.

[PSLoveCharli]

Yes, I expressed to my supervisor at work who is fluent in Spanish, that I wanted to learn. She told me that she'd be glad to help and so far it's been great learning from her. The progress is slow because our job is overwhelming, but it's something.

[Baburra]

I have a few Japanese friends who constantly help me out with understanding Japanese. They usually teach me new phrases I can use, especially ones we can use as code among the locals. I wouldn't call them mentors, however, as they are not treating it as seriously as if it were a job, but it's enough for me to call them teachers.

[sidney]

At this time, I currently have zero mentors. I only rely on the internet to be able to learn new words. But I'm really not in a hurry though to learn a new language since I'm just a casual student, I'm not moving to another country or anything.

[Rosa]

My language mentor is my teenage daughter. She is a great motivator for me and has gone through several levels with exceptional passes . When I get a little frustrated she encourages me alot and we dialogue quite often in Spanish.