Rdearman 2016-24 You Can't Have Your Kate and Edith Too.

[DaveAgain]

I do have a poetry book which I bought on my trip to Milan, and I had planned to memorise some of the poems in it. Perhaps I need to do that.

I've been intending to, but not doing this for years, so I hope you can follow through, and be a shining example to emulate !

French
For French, I haven't done anything. I haven't spoken to anyone or even watched a television show in French in a long time, and I really need to get back to doing it.

Freeview ch.82 broadcast a french language Maigret series on tuesdays at 9pm. They've started to repeat, so I think they've got 10-15 (?) episodes.

[rdearman]

I do have a poetry book which I bought on my trip to Milan, and I had planned to memorise some of the poems in it. Perhaps I need to do that.

I've been intending to, but not doing this for years, so I hope you can follow through, and be a shining example to emulate !

French
For French, I haven't done anything. I haven't spoken to anyone or even watched a television show in French in a long time, and I really need to get back to doing it.

Freeview ch.82 broadcast a french language Maigret series on tuesdays at 9pm. They've started to repeat, so I think they've got 10-15 (?) episodes.

Actually, I forgot that I'd watched an Asterix and Obelix film.

[rdearman]

Italian
Had a lovely conversation in Italian tonight. It was fun. Not much else to report.

French
French language exchanges got cancelled, hopefully manage one tomorrow.

Korean
30:30 is kicking my arse. I fell off the rails at the weekend because there were too many people around and too much stuff to do. So it went pear shaped. So now I'm playing catch up and it isn't working very well. I might try to give myself a little break and do some simple words like numbers. Or I might just need to knuckle down and get to work.

I've done two language exchanges, with a few minutes of Korean. But honestly, it is making my head ache.

I've watched another 2 K-drama series, but I'm going to give that a little rest for a week or two. I think Korean and I need a little break from each other.

General Stuff
I finally managed to catch up on my reading. I'm actually 5 books ahead of my target for this week of the year. I've also worked up something I'm calling "The System" which brining together all my projects, to-do lists and everything else into one place, and then I'm carving out time to focus on each thing. This is the reason why I'm managing to force ahead on the reading, simply because I'm scheduling time for it, time for exercise, etc. I'm brining together all my partially written books and other projects that I want to complete, and assigning time to them. I realise this isn't anything miraculous or earth-shattering, but it has made a lot of difference for me.

[rdearman]

I have more or less lost interest in learning or maintaining languages. So I'm going to park it and get on with some other more pressing things in my life.

[Carmody]

rdearman » Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:38 pm
I have more or less lost interest in learning or maintaining languages. So I'm going to park it and get on with some other more pressing things in my life.

Does not everyone need to be able to say that at many points along the lengthy language learning journey?

[noblethings]

Taking a break can be a good thing . Even if you don't know when or if you'll return.

[garyb]

I had no regrets about pausing my language studies for some months a few years ago, and I eventually came back to them with much healthier motivations than before and a better balance. That "better balance" does mean much less time and consistency than before, but again that's not a bad thing after realising that other things are more important to me and give me more benefit or joy in this period of my life.

[jeff_lindqvist]

↑ What garyb said. When the time is right, it's right. I've taken super-long breaks in a variety of disciplines, and those times when inspiration has
come back, it has been so much more fun to spend time on whatever it is.

[rdearman]

Still reading. Although the books that only took me a day to read, don't show well on the chart.

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[Le Baron]

'Use your head to get your foot in the door' is a novel book title. Doesn't work as well if you switch the body parts.

I gather from the list that you are very heavily occupied with book marketing?