Personality and Language Learning

Do some personalities learn a language better than others? I think that achievement of learning language might not depend on personalities and not because that someone is better than others. Yet there are different methods for each single person that helps one's progresses, and the differences are come from our personalities.

Thinking about myself, one the strongest thing that helps me keep motivation to learn English is my curiosity. When I started learning English, I was addicted to rock music mostly from the US and the UK. I tried to memorize and understand their lyrics. I could learn some new words and idioms not in my English textbooks. (Sometimes, you should not use such words in the real world, though.) That was my motivation. It does not come from academic purpose but I am always curious about something and even now that helps me gain wide range of knowledge.

One more thing that helps me is my tenacity. Once I am interested in something, mostly I keep the interest for it for a long time. Learning language is fortunately one of such things of mine, so I could keep learning it.

Since I came here, however sometimes l cannot have enough communication with peole around me because I am still a bit afraid of contact with others. I am too shy to the people whom I do not know well. Though once I know them, I can talk to them well. One of the reasons that I wanted to go out from my country was to know a lot of people and learn a lot from them. Now it is the time to throw my fears away.