Re: The Ambitious Goals of a Wallflower [ES, IT, ZH, and More!]
Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2020 4:05 am
End of February 2020 Wrap-up
I honestly just want to put February behind me. Things have been rough in my personal life recently.
Italian: I started doing something in Italian and then nothing. Like I said, things have been stressful in my personal life so I was not really in the mood for anything this month.
Japanese: I made some good progress with Japanese in February so I feel pretty good. I focused on it a lot and managed to finish Japanese for Busy People Volume 1 finally. I'm going to take some time to review and then move on to the next book. I also started typing up my notes as a way to review but also so I can recycle my binders and paper.
Mandarin: I need to stop putting off Mandarin. I procrastinate because I know I have to review and it intimidates me. Mandarin isn't as easy to jump back into like Spanish or even Italian or Catalan.
Spanish: I just love Spanish since it's the only language that I'm consistent in right now. I managed to read two books in February. Those books were El Sueno de America by Esmeralda Santiago and Siberia by Jesús María Sáez. Both books were alright but I would not reread either one so I'll probably donate them later. Aside from that I'v been watching more youtube videos in Spanish. I still watch way too many English youtube videos and channels though. I would like to change that. And I'm still watching the telenovela, El Clon. And I'm still actively writing in my journals.
Catalan: I had a little motivation for Catalan this month. I've been studying it through Spanish resources which is not as confusing as I was afraid it would be. I actually like comparing sentences in Catalan and Spanish. It's interesting to see how much is similar and what little details are different. I'm going back and forth between Assimil's Catalan sin esfuerzo and Aprender catalan sobre la marcha. The second book seems like a wordlist broken up by topic with some verb conjugations and sentences thrown in.
I honestly just want to put February behind me. Things have been rough in my personal life recently.
Italian: I started doing something in Italian and then nothing. Like I said, things have been stressful in my personal life so I was not really in the mood for anything this month.
Japanese: I made some good progress with Japanese in February so I feel pretty good. I focused on it a lot and managed to finish Japanese for Busy People Volume 1 finally. I'm going to take some time to review and then move on to the next book. I also started typing up my notes as a way to review but also so I can recycle my binders and paper.
Mandarin: I need to stop putting off Mandarin. I procrastinate because I know I have to review and it intimidates me. Mandarin isn't as easy to jump back into like Spanish or even Italian or Catalan.
Spanish: I just love Spanish since it's the only language that I'm consistent in right now. I managed to read two books in February. Those books were El Sueno de America by Esmeralda Santiago and Siberia by Jesús María Sáez. Both books were alright but I would not reread either one so I'll probably donate them later. Aside from that I'v been watching more youtube videos in Spanish. I still watch way too many English youtube videos and channels though. I would like to change that. And I'm still watching the telenovela, El Clon. And I'm still actively writing in my journals.
Catalan: I had a little motivation for Catalan this month. I've been studying it through Spanish resources which is not as confusing as I was afraid it would be. I actually like comparing sentences in Catalan and Spanish. It's interesting to see how much is similar and what little details are different. I'm going back and forth between Assimil's Catalan sin esfuerzo and Aprender catalan sobre la marcha. The second book seems like a wordlist broken up by topic with some verb conjugations and sentences thrown in.