#weekly.mpg

More like an annual check-in now it seems... For those that follow this little sideblog, long time no see! I hope that you’re doing well, enjoying the summer, and getting some studying in along the way! I fell off insanely hard on my language learning in the past year, which is sort of on trend for me. Between school and qualifying exams, personal life, and constantly battling wavering consistency and perfectionism (which I think is something I want to explore in regards to language learning over the next few months), I really haven’t done much studying at all.

It’s a bit frustrating, because studying languages is something I really enjoy and I have a lot of lofty goals, and the more time that goes by without progress the more discouraged I tend to to get. But for the past few days I’ve been doing a lot of reflection and I think baby steps are more important then none? 

I think my goal over the next month or so is to focus a lot more on input and my foundation, as well as using consistency as a marker of progress instead of skill. I recently came across the refold method again, and I like the idea of building your language learning around the concept of comprehensible input, so I think that I am going to really dive into their system and get more involved with the community and get back to logging my progress here. 

Notes to self for tomorrow’s check-in (because I have been slacking something terrible...). I’ve been running into some challenges with my Spanish learning (that actually has nothing to do with the language itself lmfao), so here’s what I’m going to be focusing overcoming over next week, so I can go into the third month of my Spanish challenge with a better mindset!

Motivation =/= Discipline; How can I push myself to be consistent? How can we implement more accountability for consistent language learning? 

Burn out... How can I make learning my target language interesting over time?

Distractions!!! Falling into the ‘trap’ of learning more than one language at a time...

Mi primera lección sobre iTalki.... Fue muy dificil... pero muy divertido!