Some students have a stronger affective barrier to language learning than others, and seem to have no interest in language learning, whatsoever. For a language teacher in the U.S., this is a real challenge, because world language learning is not considered to be high stakes subject matter, therefore, the resistant language learners are given license to care even less than they already did.We, as language teachers, know how beneficial language learning is. We love our content area and we wish our