First of all, I want to thank everyone who wrote in my log or sent me a PM. It’s good to have friends. Thank you all for your kind words and understanding. Sorry I didn’t answer. At the time, I just needed to disappear for a while.
It’s 1 September, so I figured it’s probably time to get on the Hogwart’s Express and get back to studying. (Today, by the way, is apparently the day in which Albus Severus Potter boards the Hogwart’s Express for the first time.)
I did read the forum somewhat while I was taking my break and even got a tiny bit of studying in, but mostly I’ve just been house/apartment hunting and stressing out. It’s so hard to find a good place to buy, at least if I don’t want to spend more money than I’m ever likely to see in my whole life, and even then, I don’t think it would be easy to find what I want.
Anyway, I think I need to settle down a little and perhaps even consider putting off the house hunting and either stay here a little longer, or find a quieter place to rent. At least autumn is coming, so that there will soon be fewer motorcycles and other noisy contraptions on the road.
I’ve been having trouble settling down properly to study, but I did get a few things done. In Spanish, I finished the Spanish Glossika and read another Spanish novel. And now that the weather is getting cooler, and hopefully quieter, I should try to get back to my italki lessons. I have two left in a package and I think it expires in October, so I’d better get on it.
I also started German Glossika, which I feel is much better than the Spanish one. There are fewer mistakes so far and the German audio is pretty good. He even puts a bit of expression and emotion into the sentences.
I even learned some new Norwegian vocab. I’ve been reading every book I could find about buying a dwelling and so I’ve been learning lots of words related to construction, carpentry, masonry, etc. Some of them, I even remember.
I think I’m going to have to withdraw from rdearman’s study. I barely even got started, but I think it is too much for me. I never managed to install the necessary software and my computer is so incredibly slow, that I’ve decided I don’t want to mess with it anymore. I think the problem is more the age of my computer than a problem with the software, but I’m still just going to leave it alone. Even being in the control group is too complicated, to be honest. I’ve been avoiding studying Czech so that I don’t have to try to figure out how to register it in the spreadsheet.
Now for the hard part: I think I need to cut down on the number of languages I’m studying. I’m not Expug and I’m very bad at organization. I can manage one language, or even two, but when I try to divide my time too much, I get overwhelmed and don’t do anything. So, since Spanish and German are my two best languages after English and Norwegian, they will be my focus from now until I feel somewhat comfortable speaking them. The other languages will be dabbling languages. I think this will actually lead to me learning more quickly. When I’m just doing one or two languages, I spend a lot of time on them, but when I’m doing more languages, I spend most of my time trying to figure out what to do and worrying that I should actually be doing something else.