Not much to say on language learning. I've dropped everything except the bare minimum in Russian. Classes are going fine although I regret not putting in more time. But yeah, not doing much besides classes. I'm going to see if I can pick up my Russian-Dutch language exchange again. My language partner was super busy too, but now we're both ready to get started again. The few exchanges we had before were really beneficial so I hope I can motivate myself enough to stick with it.
Travelling is still my main motivation. I went to Moldova and Transnistria for a week last month with a friend, and it was an interesting experience. We got to speak lots of (bad) Russian once again which was fun, and useful! We got around fairly easily, even with our limited Russian, so I'm quite proud of that. We especially spoke a lot of Russian in Transnistria, but it was also our go-to language in Moldova and thankfully nobody seemed to mind. Beforehand I had definitely underestimated how widely spread Russian was going to be - I was expecting to only be able to speak it in certain regions. Got some fun guesses from people as to where we're from - Sweden was the number one guess, and after that it was a mix of England, Germany and France (and someone in Moldova even guessed we were from Romania, which is puzzling to say the least).
(Bonus: this may have been the first trip ever where we didn't meet a single Dutch person
c'est un miracle!)In January I'll finally, finally be visiting Russia! Going to Saint Petersburg for a week, woohoo! That's a little added motivation to get my conversational skills up to par.
SC update:
Japanese (half challenge)
Reading: 7.7 books, 387 pages (total)
Watching: 54.5 films, 4,909 minutes (total)
09 Oct 2018 tokidoki s1e3 50 minutes
09 Oct 2018 カケラ 107 minutes
10 Oct 2018 サバイバルファミリー 118 minutes
17 Oct 2018 tokidoki s1e4 50 minutes
10 Nov 2018 万引き家族 121 minutes
14 Nov 2018 ゴールデンカムイ s1e13 江渡貝くん 24 minutes
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Russian (half challenge)
Reading: 2 books, 100 pages (total)
Watching: 53.5 films, 4,813 minutes (total)
17 Oct 2018 Сталкер 163 minutes
21 Oct 2018 Иди и смотри 142 minutes
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My Super Challenge is looking pathetic right now. I think I will be going for 100 films in both languages, but reading... yeah. I don't know. Would be nice to get to at least 50 books.
Иди и смотри is easily one of the most depressing things I've ever watched. You know how there are sad/depressing/dark pieces of media and you deal alright with them, feel a little down maybe but then shrug it off and move on? And then there are those that just... ruin your day, your week, your year and your life, basically. That's Иди и смотри for you.
(Only had the same life ruining experience once before and that was Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life
An exercise in misery, as I like to call it).
I want to like Anki, but memrise worked so well for me. I have years of content built up, all organised the way I wanted it. Like you I've moved it to Anki and now have no idea what to do with it. A lot of it is associated with particular times of my life, so it feels like such an emotional wrench.