Eric

Today I continued to learn some pharmacy vocabulary and started alternating between the HSK 1 vocabulary and this one. I separated it into 2 different Anki decks to not lose track and my new book definitely came in use.

Another update for the day before hehe.

I started looking up some pharmacy vocabulary to have in mind and I also bought a little book made for travelling to China since it had a pretty big section with pharmacy and illness related words and phrases.

This is actually an update for yesterday but I wrote down some new vocabulary on my anki deck. I'm now not using any translations and relying on my memory entirely and that works really good, plus I'm adding some phrases I made myself next to the new words and I find that super helpful, too.

I'm also using Genshin images for context as to awaken some dopamine in my brain and crave learning more which I honestly think helps me plenty, too.

Since I made my last post I've started relearning chinese little by little because I kept thinking about retaking it but I simply couldn't find enough energy no matter how hard I tried to make it work.

I'm starting from the bottom since I didn't get to make that much progress and since I formated my computer I just made a new anki deck for my vocabulary.

This time, instead of using a book with the most used words in chinese I will simply start learning the 150 words required to pass the HSK 1 test. I'm not going to take the test but it will help me feel like I'm making some progress.

Uhmm... So I went through something pretty fucked up that messed with me and made me so paralyzed I just dropped out of school entirely and couldn't find the motivation to do anything anymore even though I really forced myself to be ok and keep going.

I've been battling with my mental health for so long but I obviously never mentioned it in my blog because it has nothing to do with languages and I'm also not the kind of person to bring that up unless needed.

Recently, because of the experience that made me go downhill, I honestly think I'm beginning to develop OCD. At first, I tried to brush it under the rug because it wasn't that bad and since my boyfriend has it I didn't want to be insensitive by saying I might have it, too, but as months pass it keeps getting worse and I can no longer control it.

On the bright side, I recently started studying pharmacy and despite doing horribly mentally and barely being able to do anything I managed to get pretty good grades! My average is a 7/10, which isn't perfect but I can improve some of my grades easily and this is just my first trimester. I'm one of the best students in my class either way.

I also booked my first date with a therapist. I had been going to psychiatry units since I was a 12 year old but they were provided by the public healthcare services of my country since my family was too poor to afford it. That sounds great, but they completely fucked me up.

I very recently got a study buddy from a Discord server I'll be studying chinese together with and that was the little push I needed to go back to learning mandarin, since I had really wanted to learn it for so long but I didn't even have enough motivation to play videogames on my own. I now need someone to be with me for everything, basically.

Hi! I've been having a super cluttered mind for a while now and I've been focusing more on making art because I know I just can't keep up with multiple hobbies at once for now, and I wanted to draw more with Art Fight coming.

If you're interested in art, too, feel free to give me a follow on my art blog. My user is @erieric and here are a few pieces made by me :)

Today I watched a few videos: - I taught myself French to C2 level, so here is how I think you should learn it - Do French People Use AI? | Easy French 199 - Notre génération a un problème identitaire (trend tiktok, fascisme, appropriation,...)

I might watch more by the last creator (Assiarabian) since she does essay-like videos of topics I've already consumed plenty of and I can actually understand them pretty easily. I think it's a good way to start tuning my listening even more.

I also read some pages of my grammar book and wrote some things down.

Today I installed HelloChinese on my iPad to start learning more frequently and I went across the pronunciation lessons.

June 6th, 2025 French learning

I'm trying to a establish study sessions every friday with my best friend and my boyfriend so we can motivate ourselves to study more. My best friend is going to start learning dutch and my boyfriend just does his college homework to accompany us a bit.

Today I made a Notion template that includes a streak so I feel motivated to do my hobbies routinely. I just started with three things in my daily to-do list and will slowly add more as time passes.

I also want to add a category with things I need to do without a certain time limit and set as am objective to do one per day, but I will get to that later.

Since I already made the template I obviously decided to actually learn some french and went through some pages of the book I recently got so the streak can be seen the fastest possible, lol.

Sorry for being inactive once again!

I'm really struggling with my mental health lately but today I decided to buy a book to revise my grammar since I'm lacking a bit in that aspect because I basically self taught myself for most of the time and I really want to get over the B1 level already.

I also noticed there were a lot of signs in the city that announced you can get language certificates for free during this year if you pass them instead of needing to pay the usual 300 euros.

That really motivated me to try to get better at french to see if I'm able to get at least a B2 for free and it's also a great opportunity to get my C2 on english!

I've been really doubting my english level lately though. I know I'm fluent and natives understand me easily but I keep thinking of 200 reasons as to why I might not pass the test even though I know it's all in my head. I'm definitely not throwing away this opportunity, though.