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第365天 - 结束

It’s the end of the year which means I’ve made it through the entire year of studying! I took a quick look back at the first post I made when I talked about the level I was at and what my plans were for the year. I’m going to be completely honest and say I did not progress as I had hoped I would nor did I really work on any of what I had planned to. I was ready to give up studying Chinese back in April and so I think that was around the time I decided to switch my priority language to Korean and put Chinese on the back burner. That’s not to say I didn’t do anything in this year of studying because I did finish the HSK2 course on memrise as well as completely reading through Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar and finishing up the course I was in (and the textbook we used, Integrated Chinese level 1 part 2). Even though I didn’t really progress as much as I would have liked, I think just the fact that I stuck with it through to the end is something to be proud of :) 

That being said, I’m not planning on returning to this blog in the new year, but rather, I’ve decided to start using my general language blog language-365 for any updates throughout the year. I’m also planning to take a break from Chinese for now. I definitely don’t think it’ll be for good, I just need a break and would like to focus more on Korean (and would also like to maybe go back to ASL). I don’t really have anything concrete planned right now, but if you’re interested in following up, it’ll be on that blog :)

Anyways, Happy new years everyone, and good luck on any study goals you have for 2018!

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第364天

kind of skipped the duolingo so just memrise today ^^; tomorrow I’ll try to look back a bit at how this year went and also see what my plans will be for next year :]

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第363天

Same as yesterday, a bit of memrise and a bit of duolingo :]

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第362天

I did a bit of duolingo in addition to the usual memrise today 😏

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第361天

just a bit of memrise today, I decided to skip the duolingo this time :T

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第360天

just a bit of catching up with memrise and duolingo reviews :]

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第359天

圣诞快乐！Merry Christmas! I didn’t do a lot today, just a bit of memrise and duolingo again ^^;

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第358天

memrise and duolingo today. all new stuff though ^^

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第357天

memrise and duolingo again :

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第356天

Once again, I just did some memrise and duolingo ^^

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第355天

almost forgot to post but I did some memrise and some duolingo earlier today :)

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第354天

I worked on a bit of new stuff in both memrise and duolingo today! a bit of progress at last ^^;

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第353天

I finished getting caught up on the duolingo reviews today (and also memrise) so I should be ready to do some new lessons tomorrow :]

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第352天

I was mostly working through reviews today trying to catch back up so I can start doing new stuff again.. I did do some on duolingo in addition to memrise though so ^^;

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第351天

same as yesterday, just a bit of memrise.. I’ll try to get back to duolingo tomorrow though ;)

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第350天

I skipped the duolingo today but I still did some memrise review ;)

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Hi Melissa! So I am planning to study Korean and Mandarin everyday for the next year as well (I am already taking Korean and Mandarin classes, but I plan to study more on my own to achieve fluency faster)... Do you have any tips for me? Thanks!

Hi! That’s so cool :D I think my top two tips would be to have a journal/blog/something similar to keep track of what you’re doing and what you want to do. It’s definitely helped me this year ^^; My other tip would be to have something that you can easily do every day like flashcards or something for when you get busy or are having a tough time. Remember that review is very helpful for keeping the language fresh in you mind so even if that’s all you do, it’s still progress :) Don’t stress if you don’t always do equal amounts of studying in both languages, you can always change it up later! Find what works best for you and good luck studying :]