Weekly UpdateFrench : French pages
: French audio total
: French native audio
I had a very good week with French. I finished two Irène Némirovsky novels - damn, the woman can write, now I want to read all of her stuff! I also finally finished the French translation of the first Expanse book. I feel my Sci Fi vocabulary has profited from it and I'm looking forward to the second book, which I will also read in French. First things first though, I want to read a couple of comics and only then start another one of these 600 pages monsters for bed-time reading. Also, I have calculated that with my currently allotted 2h PhD reading a day I should finish my first 10,000 pages in French in about 2-3 weeks. We also started watching
Les Revenants and we're already on the second season. It starts off really good and then deteriorates, but generally there is much less complaining happening than with Spanish TV. This makes me look forward to watching more French series once I switch my PhD reading to Spanish. There was also one episode of Transfert. I guess I need to find some more interesting podcasts, because I ran out of episodes for Transfert! Today I will finish my second French audio SC!
French hours: 22.89h
Spanish : Iberian audio SC
: FSI Spanish Basic
: GdUdE B
I've been making steady progress with FSI this week and I'm now done with Unit 13. I took a break on Sunday, because ... booooring, but I'll be doing another lesson today. I also watched some more Mar de plástico, but find that it can't hold my interest much. I'll continue watching it though, because I still have some hours left on my Iberian audio SC. I also started reading a Spanish translation of a manga last night. I bought it last year as beach reading and then didn't find it engaging enough. I guess I'll finish it tonight or tomorrow. I also wrote an email in Spanish and spoke with someone on the street for 5 minutes while I was out taking pictures.
Spanish hours: 15.28h
Russian : Дэвид Эддингс - Владычица магии
: LWT Known
I made a good effort this week and continued to read the second book of the Belgariad saga. My motivation was faltering a bit though, because I got a bit distracted. I still managed to get to about 10% of the second book and I'm inching my way forward. I still believe that I can reach 500 pages before the end of July.
Russian hours: 5.91h
Total hours: 44.08h
GeneralThis last week proved that even when I'm utterly demotivated I still make plenty of progress. Of course, on such days I might not be very inclined to work on the more challenging stuff, but I have integrated my languages sufficiently into my life that I keep going simply because of my routine, at least for Spanish and French. I now also have to get Russian to the stage that I can just have fun with it and simply use it receptively every day.