Despite announcing my French C1/C2 mission not that long ago, and having put in a very solid month during July and a decent August, I don't feel like I've progressed much. And I simply believe that's because I haven't. I have concluded that i'm hovering. It's official, I'm in 'hover mode'. Despite the high-ish study numbers my routine is not ideal. Yes I'm getting French exposure/study in practically every day, but it's not enough to assist in my progression. It's enough for me to be completely comfortable at the B2 level, but not enough to make quick advances to C1/C2. However I have questioned at times if I could actually pass a C1 exam now. My routine is off and I seem to continually self sabotage lately. My main issue is still that I distract myself at night, then wake too late to get a good deal of study done. Not looking for sympathy here, not looking for advice either, I know what needs to be done. I need to get into my routine and simply be more consistent day in day out, which I honestly haven't done to the real extent I have planned to for a couple of years. I've made steady progress, and that's okay too, but now at the B2 level, I feel as if I must get back to solid commitment or I will continue to hover. If I don't, perhaps I will indeed get to the level I wish to be at, at least eventually, but I'm suffering from wanderlust again lately and becoming a little impatient as well as frustrated. And in the mix is the ever present battle between wanting to complete courses and now a real desire to read a lot.
I know I've been rather controversial at times and political particularly on the old website (HTLAL). My searches into the truth of what is really going on in the world have continued and I feel like I am
still continuing to slowly wake up with each discovery of truth despite having uncovered so much over a pretty long period now- ie there's still more and it keeps going. For those of you that like to follow the regular news, believe your leaders, and get engrossed in entertainment, I say that there's a hell of a lot more going on out there and the truth is stranger than fiction. Dare to think outside the square, challenge yourself to read, listen, delve into what is labelled conspiracy and so on, dig for the truth, and always look for another perspective behind movements, history, reports and so called facts. I do think most people have some degree of distrust of mainstream media at least and do think outside the square on many occasions, but not enough to really see what's going on. In my diggings it's affecting my interests somewhat in terms of languages. I'm evidently finding myself disliking many aspects of the French Republic almost as much as I absolutely love other aspects to death, and these repulsive aspects are almost enough for me to consider (or dream) of having a back up dream country or location to want to live in (even if it's just dreaming), but I do like to indulge a little too much in my own head's "language adventures". And I don't like the way my own country, Australia, is headed. Still, I believe that most countries are being shrouded under a web of deceit that is being ramped up. Anyway, with all that grandiose talk minus any details as I can't be bothered with debate and I must comply with website rules or be subject to discipline (and I'm not arguing against that policy either), I must move on to my point. That point is here's my latest language wanderlust wish list (and the languages here are most definitely not representative of countries with perfect political systems, but my beliefs/discoveries/learning about the world/us are leading me to question things along the way and sometimes tweak things or rearrange the list). And on that note, I think Norwegian and Spanish are becoming more important whilst Dutch is not necessarily decreasing in importance. German would've been on the list before, but lately I'm feeling Scandanavia is a better corner of the world, at least more in line with my ideals. I wasn't ever wanting to live in Germany, but I could maybe, one percent chance live in Norway or Denmark. You see? Dreaming again! But I still want to progress in French, of course
1. Reach C1 French.
2. Reach C2 French some day
3. Learn Dutch
4. Learn Spanish
5. Learn Norwegian
6. Learn at least one minority language
For Dutch, Spanish and Norwegian, "learn" in the above list could mean anything between B1 and C2. For minority languages, if and when I may do this (and I may decide to do it concurrently with other languages), I may just dabble and take a few of them to B1 or so, nothing's set in stone I guess.
Having said all of this above, I'm fickle and I think many of us are, as we live in our heads too much and over analyse. Thus, I may decide on a completely different list a short time away based on a completely different set of notions.
Learning French has taught me a lot with regards to my learning methods. I think now, were I to tell myself how many courses to use, I would recommend perhaps three easier courses and 2 or three advanced ones, before moving on to other activities (watching/listening, reading). Mind you, due to the wealth of courses available on French, I would still add more, but nowhere near the amount I own for French. Assimil I believe would almost always be a chosen course in any language, at least as it stands currently how I feel about their courses, that is. Although with Spanish I may never use Assimil, as I own every component of Destinos and Nuevos Destinos, which alone is more than sufficient I believe. Anyway, ranting now... talk soon!
Surely not, that's almost as absurd as the notion of chemtrails, is it not? https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Théorie_conspirationniste_des_chemtrails
