Well, it's time to take a look at what I've been doing - I'm quite pleased at the moment.
SpanishES Reading: ES Listening: FSI: The only "should" here is that I ought to have read more of
Pedro Páramo, because I instead have not and have been actually reading little in Spanish. Read
El Pais a couple of times in the last week. Watching a bit, podcasts, etc. What's to report in Spanish, I just do the same thing, but I enjoy it.
FrenchFR Reading: FR Listening: Of course, I decide to dial back on French, and then several things bring it back. My wife and I are doing a month of recipes from a French magazine, I started watching
Station Horizon, and decided I was going to start the second season of
Marseilles as well. But it feels different, it's more enjoyable that French has been for a while (and it's fun to do stuff in French with my wife again). Read the paper once, too.
PortuguesePT Reading: PT Listening: Still reading my two novels, and watching
3% when I get some time. Reading news.
CatalanCAT Reading: CAT Listening: Read the paper a couple of times. Probably going to try to read a chapter or so this week. Maybe watch because I'm starting to get a list of things I want to watch in Catalan, but I'm supposed to be spending less time, not more...
GalegoStopped even clozemaster at the moment. Not sure if I will finish the clozemaster set, I may really just start the novel, because I'm impatient.
SwedishSV Reading: SV Listening: FSI: Watched some of
Halvvägs till Himlen, which is pretty funny, and
Fallet, which is half in English anyway. Read the
Svenska Dagbladet a couple of times.
DanishDK Reading: DK Listening: Again, supposed to be doing less, instead started
The Rain (but only watched half the first episode)
LatinLAT Reading: Nothing. Thinking about breaking out my Caesar for some practice.
Ancient GreekGK Reading: Still the weekly stuff, and I'm planning on getting back to Herodotus
HebrewPimsleur: LR Psalms First Pass: Jenni: I'm having to do the Hebrew Pimsleur more than once to get things to stick, and I actually think I need to do the 12th one a third time, so I didn't log it. I'm doing a bit of app learning as well, but I think I'm reaching a point where I'm going to have to block out focused time for Hebrew, because I don't seem to be able to get enough of a mass to move forward with the small amounts of time I am spending. Hebrew just doesn't quite click into the way I do languages, and I don't know what I need to change about my approach. And it's not that I always do low-hanging fruit, either, I struggle more with the right approach for Hebrew than for e.g. Korean (literally, I have more trouble with my rhythm in Hebrew than any other language, and more than any language I've ever tried other than Basque and Arabic. Even the little bits of Mandarin or Japanese I once learned fit my rhythm in a way Hebrew doesn't). I've got a "way" that works for me,* and I can't get it to work for Hebrew.
KoreanVideo: TTMIK 2: FSI: Just a hair more watching, and some youtube videos. I feel like TTMIK is good right now and I'm making progress, and I'm retaining what I'm working with - I'm surprised that I'm able to see progress without more focused time, but I'm not good at making that time happen so I'm glad of it.
PersianWell, that got out of control quickly. I'm halfway able in the alphabet already, so I'm working on solidifying that - and I've done the first three lessons of
Chai and Conversation, twice each...and some youtube videos, and looked at an Assimil-like book (much cheaper though!), and unearthed the 10-lesson Pimsleur Compact that I have floating around here, and found some apps (free, so not great, but hey vocab)...What I'm not going to do is dive into a course, or anything, I think I might burn it out, but seriously there's something going on here. I always had a favorable view toward Persian, and always figured it would be pretty hard. Turns out that I never paid attention to the fact that it's a cat IV language, not a cat V, and in my experience and among those cat IV languages, I find it not the most difficult cat IV language I've tried (i.e. I find Hebrew harder, but that may also have something to do with being at a different point of struggle with Hebrew). Presently, having not bought that book and not started with that Pimsleur set, I could even do this as an FLC...but I don't think so.
CzechCZ Pent: Video: I'm probably technically out of the FLC for Czech. I stuck to the strictures and didn't use that other material I had access too, and found out I can watch film (!!!) by finding stuff on youtube that the copyright holder has put up (what appears to be an independent film studio), but I've also read
Dnes a couple of times, and I've just now made the connection that I get access to that in a way that disqualifies it from the FLC. Hmm, does violating the rules because I'm an idiot end my challenge? I didn't desire to end it, so maybe this disclaimer is enough, that hey, I read the news a few times in a (technically) non-free way (that's kind of like a library?), but really, it shouldn't have had that much influence...I need to look at their website and see how much content is available online, I may not have even gotten anything that isn't freely available anyway...
UkrainianReviewed all the podcasts up to this point, and have begun with youtube videos. If I can't manage the FLC for Czech, I can at least manage it here - and I'm enjoying Ukrainian, after having struggled a bit with resources.
RussianMT Foundation: MT Advanced: Assimil: Reading: RU NT: Read Assimil up to lesson 60 and reviewed it all. I keep meaning to progress more in actually learning stuff, and I keep going "but yeah, you can understand enough of what you hear that listening is studying, and it works for other languages...", so here's to putting my nose back to the grindstone. I've really seen an improvement in my reading lately...which means, my facility reading the script, not the corresponding vocabulary. I'm probably ready for some kind of graded reader, after I finish the Ilya Frank reader.
*that "way," by the way, is essentially "flail around for a bit, then pretend I'm Iguanamon and I'm going to do a multi-track, get about halfway through a course where I've got the basic grammar down, and then slide almost entirely into media consumption. Pretend I'm Expug and try to do a little actual study each day, but really end up at like a 10:1 ratio of consumption and study, and do short bursts of study from time to time." It ain't fast, but it ain't stressful either.