#i honestly should find someone through italki or wherever and pay them and be done with it
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man i think i need to seek out arabic-speaking areas of the internet to have maybe a reasonable chance to practice at least my reading and writing. :/
#i honestly should find someone through italki or wherever and pay them and be done with it#the organic opportunities to practice spoken arabic are so far between as to be basically nonexistent where i live#(however there are definitely pockets of a lot of speakers in areas farther away)#there are also a surprising amount of my-age-or-younger adults that speak arabic that work at a couple specific gas stations near me#not going to subject them to my verbal butchery of the language though lmaoooo but it is fun to listen in when i'm waiting in line#i'm sooo out of practice#and i was uuuuhhhh profoundly unhealthy when i was in college so i don't have many remaining contacts#tried one of those reddit language swap things but ended up chickening out#probably won't do that again#prattling about the self
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2021 Goals
Heyy! Iāve decided to put my goals for this year here, hoping that that might motivate me further, and maybe motivate someone else as well. Good luck everyone! And please take extra care of yourselves and your health, mental or otherwise! Everything else can wait.
This year has been difficult for all of us. As for me, even now, the upcoming semester is a big question mark. Currently Iām studying in France, and this semester I was supposed to go on an exchange to Taiwan buuuut thatās not happening anymore, as it has been cancelled. So per my schoolās requirements I need to find an internship in the place of expatriation, which is a pain now. And that basically just means I have no idea where Iām going to be in the coming year or what Iām gonna be doing ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ Sorry, needed to complain for a bit, as I am going absolutely insane with the stressā¦
Anywayyyy, I still hope I will be able to uphold most of these goals, wherever I will end up. I tried to not make them overly big, so that I wonāt get burned out too fast. But I have a whole year for those, some of these have dates for which I could expect to finish but I will not keep to them very strictly. Whatever happens, happens :))
Also, sorry if there are any mistakes, English is not my first language!
Korean (A2 -> B1)
1. Do 100 lessons of grammar from the HowToStudyKorean website.
Iāve started a few grammar books but in the end decided to settle on this website as I like its explanations best, and it provides the most example sentences when introducing each point. A nice touch is also the fact that it includes a list of a number of new words before each chapter, which gives me some new vocabulary to learn :)
So far Iāve divided the grammar points introduced in lessons into āto learnā, āto reviseā, āalready knowā, and turns out I have:
66 āto learnā
35 āto reviseā
32 āalready knowā
So if I did 3 points a week, I should be done around August.
2. Read 2 little stories per week from āEasy Korean Reading for Beginnersā.
There is 30 stories in the first one (I already did 5), so I should be done by the middle of April.
3. Do one chapter per week from āMy first hanja guideā.
I just got this book for Christmas and havenāt had the time to fully go through it so we will see how it goes.
4. Do Anki at least three times a week.
Every day would be preferable but I know that would last like a week at most.
5. Have iTalki lesson at least once a week.
That one is not a problem as I have been doing one or two per week for the last year, but I would just like to keep it up.
6. Try writing at least twice a month, and at least 2 pages.
Yeahhh that one is a bit of a bother, as writing still takes me a long time so we will leave it a twice a month and see how it goes.
7. Watch one youtube video per week on Korean grammar or vocabulary.
Generally I would say my goal is to use Korean more, as I know quite a lot but when Iām speaking I tend to go towards the easier words and grammar, which is why I am thinking that writing more could help me. And also I really want to focus on learning vocabulary as thatās always been a pain for me, Iām more of a grammar lover :))
French (A2 -> hoping for upper B1/ beginning of B2)
1. Finish the intermediate grammar book. Iām currently doing āGrammaire Progressive du FranƧaisā Intermediate edition, for A2/B1.
The problem is that my grammar knowledge of french is a mess , so going through this book is a bit of an annoyance, as most chapters I technically know but each time I find some nuance I wasnāt aware of... therefore I need to go through it, even the chapters I would have assumed I know :|
So I divided the chapters the same way I did Korean, into āto learnā, āto reviseā, āalready knowā, and I ended up with:
14 āto learnā
34 āto reviseā
4 āalready knowā
So technically if I did 2 points a week, I should be done in June.
2. Read the two french books I got for Christmas (āLes aventures dāAlice au pays des merveillesā and āLe tour du monde en quatre-vingts joursā).
3. Read at least two of the Harry Potter books in French.
I have started the first one this week, and I can tell itās gonna be a very very slow process. Itās the first book Iām reading in french so itās a bit difficult and frustrating but hopefully itāll get better as I go along.
4. Watch at least 4 french movies, with french subtitles.
5. Learn a french song.
6. Read one story per week from āFrench Stories for Beginnersā.
These are quite easy, but they are a nice practice for switching to books later on.
I donāt know if Iām gonna keep this one in, depends on how much my reading of actual books will progress.
7. Get to point 5 on the Duolingo tree.
I use Duolingo mostly as a revision tool, so Iām not really going to focus on it much, but still want to keep it up.
8. Watch one YouTube video per week (on any topic).
9. Listen to two podcasts per month.
10. At least one iTalki lesson per week.
11. Do Anki at least 3 times a week.
I really need to listen to french more, as Iām good at reading and I usually understand that pretty well, and Iām not the worst as speaking, but I am absolutely terrible at listening :| So thatās a priority.
Chinese (tbh I donāt know...end of HSK1/Beginning of HSK2 -> letās say the goal is HSK3 for this year)
1. Finish the book āIntegrated Chineseā
Iām having a tough time to pick a book from which to learn but I guess for now Iāll continue with that one.
Again, I divided the points in the book to āto learnā, āto reviseā, āalready knowā, and ended up with:
47 āto learnā
11 āto reviseā
15 āalready knowā
So doing 2 a week I should be done in July.
2. Learn 15 characters a day
I am way behind on learning characters.. I remember the words well but I didnāt put enough time to learn the characters at the start and now thatās gonna be a bit annoying to catch up on :|
3. Finish the drama āGo Aheadā.
4. Watch 3 Chinese movies, with both English and Chinese subtitles.
5. Have one Italki lesson per week.
6. Learn a children song in Chinese
7. Watch one youtube video per week on grammar.
8. Do Anki twice a week.
Generally focus more on characters. My speaking isnāt terrible (well besides the tones), but I need to work on the grammar a bit more as I seem to mess up the structures quite frequently. I need to put more work outside of my lessons. Since I found out Iām actually not going to Taiwan this semester my motivation has fallen a bit, but on the other hand I now have more time to prepare for fall, at which point I will hopefully be able to go!
Personal
Read 20 books.
I have always loved reading but in the past two years the amount of books Iāve read has gone down, which upsets me a bitā¦ Ā On the other hand the amount of fanfiction Iāve read is tremendous, so thereās that. However I would like to make more effort to read this year, especially since Iāve accumulated a huge pile of books over those few years.
2. Workout regularly.
Right now Iām at home, so that should be easy to do. I donāt really know whatās gonna happen this semester, so weāll see what Iām going to do about that later.
3. Eat better.
Meaning: cut down on sugar, eat more veggies and fruit.
4. Get a bit closer to my ideal weight
Iām not necessarily focusing on that this year as the previous one has been hell and really managed to deteriorate my mental health back to high school levels... but still hopefully working out a bit and eating less sugar, more veggies, I will be able to lose a tiny bit of weight. But overall I just want to focus on being a bit healthier.
5. Clean out my wardrobe
Sorry thatās a silly one but Iāve been getting to it for half a year now and Iām just too lazy to do that... maybe once I put it here I will have some motivation
6. Take care of my face and hair
So my sensitive skin hates wearing masks and needs extra care these days I need to really focus on it and baby it, to not go back to the awful red mess it was two months ago
As for my hair, I have kind of 3a curls which I havenāt been taking care of properly and plus I damaged them with hair dye (still I refuse to give up ginger hair, I blame Merida). So now during lockdown and quarantine season I finally had some time to read up on hair care of curls, and honestly after a month I can already see the difference, and well I hope for the best :)))
7. Get a tattoo
Itās something Iāve always put off since I either didnāt have the money or time. And now again both are problematic, so I will wait for the decision until I know what my school semester is going to be like. Maybe this time I will find a good moment! (Although honestly saving up for travelling after all this is over is also a great idea :))) )
8. Donāt go to sleep at 5
Yeah so during lockdown and because of online classes my sleeping schedule got so messed up I donāt even know what to do about it anymore. And while my goal isnāt to switch it to 10 pm, cutting it to 2 am at max would be nice
9. Watch 25 movies
10. Sell/donate the things that I donāt need
Iāve accumulated a huge pile of books, movies, CDs, Xbox games, art products - that I need to get rid of - and Iāve been saying that for like three years now, about the same pile of things. I will try to do that one this year!
I hope everyoneās 2021 will be a ton better than 2020! Keep fighting!
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