Recently, I've been feeling stuck.

Like, I know enough Bulgarian to get around in my day to day life but not enough to be able to figure out what people are talking about on the news. So I hover in this in between place. I keep adding words to my vocabulary but it doesn't seem to be making a very big difference to my overall fluency.

I realized this week: its like I am plateauing.

Hum. I don't really know what this means when it comes to a language but I do when it comes to sports.

In sports, if you hit a plateau and can't seem to improve most experts seem to recommend switching up your running program, increasing your mileage, adding strength training and not giving up. The idea is that your body has gotten comfortable in your current routine and as a result the program is no longer a challenge.

Basically, to break out of this plateau you switch up your workout. You increase the length of the work out or you add sprints. You add weights. You push yourself to work differently so that you are once again challenging your body.

Great. I know how to deal with a plateau in sports but what's the connection to learning a language?

Well, now I guess I  need to figure out how to push myself in new and different ways. In other words, it's time to define for myself what the equivalents of a sprint-work out and weight lifting are in language learning and make a plan to mix up my current approach to the language.

<em>Thoughts? </em>