The reason I pursue language learning is mostly because I am passionate about learning foreign languages. I enjoy traveling and living my life to the fullest. When I visit foreign countries, I always remind myself that it is always nice to know the basic words like “Hello, Ola” to make the journey more enjoyable. It fuels me because I love meeting new people so being able to hold a basic conversation with other natives is so inspirational to me. When it comes to overcoming obstacles, I have constantly kept myself determined and trust me determination with a hint of persistence goes a long way. My Italki family one thing I can tell you is that If you're passionate about studying new languages, you will achieve fluency with time and effort. Applying practical strategies to the common problems you're destined to come across. In my own experience, I've studied Spanish, Latin and Chinese, at some point picked up smatterings of Portuguese, so I feel your pain when it comes to overcoming obstacles. It’s not easy at all but persist through these natural challenges on the road to fluency and you'll someday gain all the benefits of being bilingual or even multilingual. Like any skills, developing language skills takes time and continuous practice. I noticed that you may also need to build physical skills in your tongue, mouth and throat to imitate sounds and to develop an ear to hear the nuances of a sounded meaning. You also need to build the mental skills such that using that foreign language is much less conscious and more of a performative art of doing. In conclusion I had to learn to persist in spite of the size of the task or the difficulty of its mastery. That is how I overcame the language learning obstacle.