#bee-studies

Ok, so, I know I'm already late but I was at work yesterday and honestly, that was enough. Anyway, this is my belated introduction.

What is my goal?

My goal is to learn Italian. Are 30 days enough to learn a language? No. I am not delusional. However, I am aiming to get as proficient as possible in 30 days. Since I am already finished with school this year, I have no other responsibilities this month other than going to work, so I can dedicate all of my free time to learning.

And at the end of this month, I’m going to Rome so I can practice my Italian there. I am very excited and honestly, can’t wait!

What are my secondary goals?

Before I jump head first into Italian, I still have a state exam from English so I need to focus on that. I have to go through all my materials about the UK and the USA and I have to finish 2 books. However, I am positive that I can make it. 

I want to write more. I have been writing since I was 13 but for the last 3 years, I didn’t have as much time as I would have wanted to focus on writing. Since I’m done with high school I would like to go back to writing and focus also more on that. I promised myself that I’ll write a lot when I got this laptop, yet I have writer exactly 9 things since then (such as reviews, poems or short stories - stuff I enjoy writing the most).

What is my game plan?

From now until 6th I’ll put all my time and effort into preparing for my state exam, but I'm still planning to do 2 duolingo lessons (if I do 2 every day, I’ll finish the tree by the end of the month; seems pretty doable) and listen to the Italian boot camp as much as possible.

I’m also using other resources to learn and immersing myself as much as possible, but I’ll make a post about it when I’ll have more time to focus. 

Hi! My name is Bee and I’m 18. As of the time I’m writing this I’m mere 60 days away from finishing high school. After that I would like to study languages at university and I hope to work at publishing someday.

Other blogs:

@wwwee2347 (my main)

@durch-die-tur (german langblr)

@decir-muy-pronto (spanish langblr)

@futago-tamago (japanese langblr)

@o-ilios-lampei (greek langblr)

//i just like to keep my langblr separated, you know?

My main focus: german language, history, literature, english

Languages I say I speak and then procede to us english anyway: Slovak (native), English (C1), German (B2), Japanese (A2), beginner in Esperanto, Greek and Spanish

Stuff I enjoy: reading, writing, animated movies, ecology, yoga

My favourite blogs:

@blumensprache , @uni-venture, @snooze-studies , @caringcactus22, @banglanotebook (and many others!)

What I am hoping to achieve:

graduate

get into university (29 days till enterance exams)

complete state exam in english (30 days till that)

focus more on languages I’ve been putting off (manly japanese and spanish)

Update:

For a past few days, I had a hard time doing stuff since I was struggling with waking up at 4.30 for my 6 am shift but everything's fine now and I'm back. I actually managed to do something with my Italian, just struggled with my daily updates since I just dozed off pretty early every night.

I kept my duolingo streak, did some memrise and some reading as well. I am still behind on my duolingo plan but now I have 2 days to catch up before I go to work again. 🍋🍰

Writing:

I bought a new journal to start writing something in Italian, but I admit I haven't started yet, but I did jot down some notes and stuff I have screenshot and wrote a ton of practice sentences for new vocab.

Listening comprihension:

Still only listening to italian music but I'm actually actively listening and trying to find lyrics to get the most out of it. Still, haven't found any artist I am particularly interested in so I always welcome recommendations!

Reading comprihension:

I read a mirror children's book (Danny il Papero Doma il Leone) and currently, I'm in process of rereading it just in Italian and writing notes. I also read a Wikipedia article about the Italian language in Italian and picked up some new vocab (you can check the vocab list I made at my side blog here). It was surprisingly easy since I knew what I was reading about and fun.

Grammar:

Learned some prepositions and grammar surrounding them and I'm still battling irregular verbs. I also bought a new notebook just for grammar. Yes, I went on a shopping spree.

Speaking:

Still nothing. Nicht. Nada. Nulla.

📕Harry Potter and the order of Phoenix - J. K. Rowling

🎼Per Un Millione - Boomdabash

Daily update

Honestly, I didn't do as much as I wanted to today, but I guess it's fine. Rome wasn't build in a day, right? I achieved my goal on memrise, wrote my to-do list in Italian, wrote down and then retiped into tinycards first 150 most used Italian words. I also listened to a good chunk of an Italian audio course while cleaning so I hope that helped something.

I didn't go through my two duolingo lessons a day since the grammar was hard and I wanted to focus more on it before progressing but otherwise. I also didn't write into my diary because I am exhausted and didn't feel like it but otherwise I think I did pretty well. 🍋🍰

Writing:

While doing my bullet journal I took time and wrote out all of my goals in Italian and actually translated everything written to Italian (such as days of the week, etc.). This way I'll look at it a lot. I also wrote an to do list in Italian and posted it on my side blog.

Listening comprihension:

I listened to some Italian music while doing my bujo and on the run today, otherwise didn't do much.

Reading comprihension:

I casually read Italian captions (and actually understood some of it) on Instagram and stuff but I sadly didn't get to reading the mirror children's book I'm planning to. Hopefully I'll have time for it next week.

Grammar:

Went over present tense, regular and irregular verbs and quickly glanced over past tenses.

Speaking:

From now on, I can say that I have a C2 English certification. I have done extremely well and I am so proud of myself. I did a lot of cramming, even pulling an all-nighter, which has left me super exhausted. I came home yesterday and slept pretty much until this morning.

Decided to make an update post to take a break and motivate myself since I haven't been doing as well as I would like. The weather is really messing with me and my migraines are killing me. I haven't been keeping up with my plan (unfortunately), but today (after spending the whole morning sleeping in - I woke up not being able to focus my eyes and wanting to throw up) I'm finally on the roll. I have managed to get through a good number of topics for my exam and I am full of energy so I'm hoping to get through a few more.

So far, as my Italian goes I have managed to complete my duolingo lessons but I didn't do much else. Only a few days, however, and I'll be able to learn as much Italian as possible. 🍋🍰

📕 Beloved - Toni Morrison

🎼 Still waiting - Sum 41

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