How to Learn a "Useless" Language

Olly Richards and I share our thoughts on how to learn a language that you don't have any obvious reason to learn. Is it possible to trick yourself into being movitated?

Olly's channel:
   / ollyrichards  

All of the things listed below can be of benefit to you as well as helping me make better language learning videos. You're awesome, thank you.

PATREON: Get extra videos which explain my thoughts on specific things (you ask the questions), articles and interviews with successful language learners:
https://www.patreon.com/user?u=383206...

One of my favourite apps is called Drops. It won't teach you a language but it will definitely add some interesting vocabulary to your repertoire.
Use this link to get 50% OFF DROPS! (It also helps me keep making my amazingly good videos... jokes. But it does.)
https://languagedrops.com/affiliates/...

The native speaker tutoring shown in my videos is through iTalki. You can get $10 credit applied to your account when you make your first purchase, or you can just check it out for free using this link, which also helps me out by allowing me to take more language lessons:
https://www.italki.com/i/CHfEEb?hl=en-us

One of my favourite language learning apps is called SPEAKLY. Get 40% off any premium membership and help me make better videos by using the appropriate code (6 months or more include all languages no matter which you choose, though you still need to use the appropriate code to the language you click on):
ENGLISH: FNS1
SPANISH: FNS2
FRENCH: FNS3
GERMAN: FNS4
ITALIAN: FNS5
RUSSIAN: FNS6
ESTONIAN: FNS7
FINNISH: FNS8
Find Speakly for ANDROID here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...
Speakly for APPLE here:
https://apps.apple.com/ee/app/speakly...

Do you like foreign language TV shows and movies? Check out the channel on which I review ONLY those shows:
   / @lamontmcleod2  

Subscribe for more awesome language learning content:    / @daysandwords  

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How long ago did I make the video that I mentioned in this video? _
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