Postby tarvos » Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:02 pm
I'd say I'm doing okay. I could probably have done more, but then I realize days only have 24 hours, my energy levels are down the drain as it is, and I have somewhere between 15 and 25 languages where I could probably string a few words together, so all in all I don't think I should be complaining about my progress.
That said, there are certain languages where I probably could do better if I spent more time doing certain things I'm a bit loathe to do (such as working on my characters and memorizing more vocabulary), but I can counter that with the fact that I have about 13 other languages at my disposal in which I can read novels, sometimes from more than a century ago. So all in all, I don't think I should be complaining, even though I could probably still do better in *all* of my languages (including Russian, Spanish, French etc. Probably even in English and Dutch).
Everyone else would probably be jumping for joy, but I'm never quite satisfied, so there ya go. Someone says "but you can manage in Mandarin" and I am like "but I can't read a newspaper, so..." and there we go again! My psychologists tell me I should be kinder to myself.
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I hope your world is kind.
Is a girl.