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I answered "Quite happy". In reality it somewhere in between "Quite happy" and "Very happy". i.e. on good days it's very happy, on bad - quite happy. Since the beginning my goal has been - don't quit, so my English learning hasn't been really learning. Usually I do only what I want to. Even though I'm often whining about my grammar and writing if I start learning any other language I will do it in the same unsystematic way. I'm 100% sure that If I try to do it in a more proper, academic way: textbooks, grammar books, word lists, etc. I will quit it before I even start. I understand that my approach isn't the most effective one so I don't expect much and mostly happy with what I have right now.

Extremely happy. I'm on track to learn 2 asian languages in 2 years, Korean B2+ and Tagalog B1. I've found my own personal silver bullet.

I answered very unhappy, because there has been no progress for months, due to having other problems. I enjoy what I had achieved before that, but I was hoping I'd be somewhere else by now. I visited Vienna last week and felt so powerless and tied without due to my extremely weak German. My Spanish is on the plateau. My French writing is rotting. My Italian is purely passive.

But I hope I will be able to choose a totally different answer in a few months

I didn't vote, but>>>
Extremely happy.

I haven't been learning any languages for years. And now I'm just enjoying what I have.
Life is as beautiful as this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwkS2tuJ47M
Or this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK3NMZAUKGw

To put it in Russian:
У меня есть все
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNJgEg7 ... S9P4wtt6uZ

leosmith wrote:Extremely happy. I'm on track to learn 2 asian languages in 2 years, Korean B2+ and Tagalog B1. I've found my own personal silver bullet.

Do you describe your method anywhere? (If not, and if the description is too long for this thread, feel free to PM me)

I voted quite happy. I like my suite of languages, my resources, and my goals. I'm not always happy with my progress, but I take great pleasure in the process.

I haven't voted yet, because it's a bit generalized, but I'd say generally happy everytime I talk with my mom in Korean about a subject that she is interested in without delving into the whole, how is your day, what do you want to eat, etc.

I think one of the few times that I was pretty happy was when she was explaining to me about a South Korean president's assassination. That was very interesting.

jeff_lindqvist wrote:Do you describe your method anywhere? (If not, and if the description is too long for this thread, feel free to PM me)

It's in my log.

I voted neutral. I'm happy with my progress in some languages, but sometimes frustrated with my lack of progress in others, especially when it comes to pronunciation. I guess this explains why I struggle with Polish and Swedish.

I'm one of the unhappy ones, at least for Spanish, because it feels like it's taking me so long to learn it. Even though I've been studying it for a few years now (albeit kinda on-and-off) I'm still struggling to follow many films without subtitles and conversations between natives, and my speaking has been stuck in "can have a conversation, but not particularly well" for a similarly long time. In Italian I overcame these difficulties far more quickly (my French knowledge was a big factor in my success), and in theory for Spanish it should have been even quicker especially because of having Italian under my belt as well, not to mention that Spanish is generally considered the easiest of the three (although I've always had my reservations about that). But apparently not! Of course part of it is that my studies have been less consistent as I said, but in recent months I've ramped them up again yet am seeing little progress.

As for Italian itself, I also wouldn't mind slightly faster progress on that as it's been "almost fluent" for years, but I've never learnt another language to such a high level so I don't have expectations to compare it to. I guess the problem with Spanish is my expectations as Iguanamon said. I don't think they were too unrealistic - I always saw it as a separate language and didn't expect to get it "for free" just because of my related language knowledge - but I had been hoping for a bit more of a discount especially after French had helped me so much with Italian.