#anyways i learned two entire fictional alphabets and am currently learning a fictional language with different grammar

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Mid-Year Update

I found myself itching to write a blog post this afternoon, so, here. I've finished my first semester of university and am on break, so naturally I have too much time on my hands.

French

...is going well! I'm majoring in it at university, which is ideal, and I'm able to study it in an advanced pathway, so I'm not bored either. I had an awesome professor this semester just gone, and made quite a few friends in my tutorial, so it was great overall! I really appreciated the topics that we got to study, which focused on history decolonised, and allowed for a lot of higher-order thinking in French. I'm really looking forward to next semester's course as well; we're going to focus on this guy who's a musician and writer among other things, study his book and his music etc. Think it's gonna be good.

Korean

Good news - I got accepted into my dream university course that allows me to take two language majors, with a specialisation in translation! So I'm now also majoring in Korean language at uni - beginner's stream. I figured that this semester would be easy because of my prior study. I was so very wrong. Albeit the first 1-2 weeks were boring because we were just learning the alphabet and how to say "A is B", but beyond that we ripped straight into entirely different topics from what I'd been self-studying last year and it was actually a really difficult course. There were lots of assessments and vocabulary that required a lot of time to be dedicated to them. Overall I'm happy with how I tracked and I'm enjoying the major so far but holy hell I underestimated how much effort a beginner language at university level would be. Truly it was so much knowledge being crammed into my tiny little brain. It was enjoyable in a different way from French; less philosophy/sociology and a greater focus on learning how to produce the language itself.

German

So I did the *majority* of the language sprint. Didn't quite finish due to some personal stuff I had going on in my life at the time, but I learned loads anyway. It was really challenging to do while also beginning university at the same time, so I didn't continue with any other German study after the sprint finished, but I still find that I'm able to produce very simple sentences in the language for a laugh.

The Rest of 2022

...is yet to be decided, in terms of goals. There are the obvious ones, like maintaining a good WAM (weighted average mark; it's what my uni uses instead of the GPA) in French and Korean.

I'd also like to finish the French book that I'm currently reading, Le Poing Levé by Simon Stranger (3/4 of the way through it and it's a good read, as far as YA fiction goes). That would make it the first full length novel that I've finished in French.

I'd like to say that I'll continue with some self-study of Korean with my TTMIK textbooks during the winter break, but honestly, it would be more than good enough if I can consolidate what I learnt from uni Korean first and foremost, so that I have a good handle on it going into semester 2.

As for German, I'm not sure if I still want to try to reach A1.1 by the end of this year. I have a lot of languages that already need time dedicated to them, so I think that it will most likely remain a passion/curiosity project rather than being anything too serious (I only just stopped biting my nails and they're so pretty please I don't need or want any extra stress right now).

Thanks for reading if you made it this far! You really didn't have to. Really. This is literally just how I document the big steps I take in language learning for myself. But thanks heaps if you did anyway :D

Merci bien!

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