Been reading people's logs on here for a couple of months and it seems that the accountability that keeping a log gives may just help me push through the very painful progress of being a beginner in Arabic (MSA). As such French, German, Spanish and Russian will probably be on the backburner for a while, though I do intend to try to maintain the levels I'm currently at (especially Russian as it took me a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to C1 level and pass the ТРКи 3 exam in Moscow, so definitely don't want it to go to waste). I will continue to do this by watching films, reading books (the goal is to read 1 foreign language book a month and 1 English, so will alternate the languages - ideally I will have read 4 books per language by the end of the year) and having conservations with native speakers.
Arabic
This is without doubt the hardest language I've ever tried to tackle (and I have dabbled in Mandarin, Polish and Hebrew). I really need to just focus on getting the basics down but I find myself keep wandering to the infinitely easier (Thank you, Russian!) Polish and Ukrainian. I also keep wandering to Hebrew (which I also previously thought would be a good idea to study alongside Arabic. As you can imagine that was an awful idea). Hebrew just seems easier to me as a beginner. And yet...Arabic is my heritage language and I do belly dance as a hobby so it is immensely more useful for my life.
Once aspect I am having a particularly difficult with in terms of Arabic is simply finding decent resources for MSA. A lot of resources seem to be for Egyptian, Syrian or Moroccan...or even worse mix up dialects/MSA without warning (looking at you Arabicpod101
)My main goal for 2023 is to make strides towards being a solid A1 by the end of the year.
Currently i am doing the Pimsleur Arabic course, which is definitely beginning to help me simply get started but it is quite slow. So, I am planning to speed through the remaining two levels over January. After that, I will start on my Mastering Arabic books and possibly use the copy of TY complete Arabic I have.
My short term goal is therefore:
~ Finish Pimsleur Arabic by February
~ Mastering Arabic 1 finished by April (possibly mixing in parts of TY for consolidation)
In terms of time spent daily with Arabic, given the difficulty of the language for a native English speaker, my goal is to spend an hour a day in contact with the language (not counting music as I already listen to Arabic music daily for dance class, and it clearly is not contributing to the language input process). I will, however, give myself a rest day per week.
Finally for Arabic, I am going to give myself the goal of writing something in Arabic once a week. Simply to help solidify the alphabet in my brain as it is still very very slow going on both reading and writing in Arabic. This written piece I will then submit to Hellotalk weekly for corrections.
Hebrew, Polish and Ukrainian
Hebrew needs to be paused, as sad as that is, until I have some foundation in Arabic.
Polish - I am allowing myself to dabble in a little but I must not allow it to take over my focus in place of Arabic. Maybe towards the end of the year I may consider dedicating some more time to do it.
Ukrainian - This language just kinda crept up on me, but I love it!
I am into traditional Cossack songs and what are considered traditional songs in Russia and quite a few of them are actually in Ukrainian. So, I wanna learn a bit of the language to be able to understand what the song is about and sometimes sing along. Ukrainian isn't really taxing to learn as I already know Russian and have a smattering of Polish. The problem is I want to pick up both Polish and Ukrainian at the same time, so I need to be careful not to start mixing them up. No real goals for Ukrainian therefore, except to just dabble and see where it goes 
Think that is it for now...I am hoping to update weekly on how learning has been going. I will keep a record of time spent with each language over the week and then post all in one go as I don't have time to keep a daily log.
Going forward I need to keep this in mind so that I can more accurately count how much time I dedicate to Russian passively. 