From the article Z mého života, you might remember that before moving to Mexico, I lived in Italy and studied Italian intensively. In Mexico, however, I didn’t need Italian, and I don’t really need it in the Czech Republic either, but I still decided to continue taking lessons with my tutor.
Individual lessons are both a financial and time investment. I know that very well, which is why I need to be sure it’s a good investment that will pay off. So I started thinking about whether I should continue with one-on-one Italian lessons, given that Italian isn’t currently my language priority.
In the end, I didn’t think about it for long. I decided to invest in Italian lessons for three reasons—one linguistic, one related to practice, and one emotional.
3 Reasons Why I Take Italian Lessons
- Practical reason:
I know that I’ll return to Italy again in the future, and I don’t want to lose the ability to speak.
If I take a break from Italian now, I’ll lose my discipline and connection with the language, and there’s a risk that I’ll feel frustrated later about how much I’ve forgotten. - Training reason:
I believe the brain always needs some kind of stimulation to function well, and speaking a foreign language regularly and learning new words is, in my opinion, excellent training. It’s also great for self-discipline, mental capacity, and it gives you that good feeling that you’re constantly learning something new and growing. At least that’s definitely how it is for me! - Emotional reason:
I have a wonderful relationship with my tutor, who always listens to me patiently, lets me talk every week about topics that are important to me, inspires me with interesting materials, and motivates me to write in Italian about subjects that generate meaningful thoughts. So sometimes I feel like my Italian lessons motivate me to live a better life.
And one extra reason for me is that every week I get to experience firsthand how my own students might feel when they speak Czech about complex topics. It helps me be more empathetic and encouraging.
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Are Individual Lessons a Good Investment?
And why am I writing about this? Because I think it’s important to know why and what we’re investing our time and money in. Often, we don’t think about it at all. Sometimes we invest in something that doesn’t actually give us anything positive, and other times we question whether something was too expensive—even though we actually enjoy it and it makes us feel good.
We sometimes think of language lessons only in terms of learning the language—grammar, new words and phrases, or specific communication situations. But language lessons can be much more than that.
In Czech lessons, you can improve not just your Czech, but your life too—and that’s the philosophy behind my motivational Czech lessons: to improve your language naturally and find inspiration in Czech lessons for a better, happier life.
Individual Czech Lessons and Personal Growth in One
I always want Czech lessons with me to be as effective as possible—and to be your best investment.
I never include anything in my lessons that I wouldn’t enjoy myself as a student or wouldn’t want to invest in. That’s why I often ask questions that inspire you to reflect on life and on what truly matters to you. I’m also open to any topics from your life. Sometimes these are happy topics, and we laugh together during those lessons—but sometimes they’re more complicated subjects that are hard to talk about.
But speaking about difficult things is the first step toward change and improving the situation.
Czech Lessons as Mental Hygiene
I believe that this coaching-style approach to Czech lessons is the best possible investment—because it combines language training with mental hygiene, and together, that can improve the quality of your entire life. It’s a path of personal growth, a journey toward a happier life—and communication in Czech is a great added bonus.
After lessons like these, you feel so good that you’re motivated to keep going even at times when you don’t actively need Czech in your everyday life (just like I don’t need Italian right now). In this kind of lesson, Czech works as a form of mental hygiene.
My Role as a Language Motivator
Helping people improve their Czech and live a happier life makes me happy too, and I see it as my life’s mission. That’s why I will continue with this work and apply the motivational approach and methods to group Czech courses as well.
One group course of motivational Czech with me recently ended. It included four very kind women, and their feedback at the end of the course inspired me to offer more courses like this in the future.
But I’ll write more about that next time.
Five Reasons Why Motivational Czech Lessons Are a Good Investment:
- Czech becomes a tool for a better life.
- You talk about important topics from your own life, so you automatically improve your Czech and also say out loud what really matters to you.
- When you speak out loud about what matters to you, you start to reflect on it.
- You’re not only learning Czech, but also discovering who you truly are and what you want in life.
- You experience powerful AHA moments that you can apply to your life—and start changing it.
