好久不见

好久不见 - Long time no see. Unfortunately, I think I have quite a few posts with that title but hopefully it'll be the last time I need to say that for a while. First year of university is over and the summer holidays have arrived! This means I have two and a half months on my beloved languages and I want to start keeping track of my progress with them so I've came back here to report.

This summer I've added quite a few more languages that I'd like to learn. I'm not going to feel guilty about wanderlust at all, in fact, I'm going to embrace it! For the last nine months, I've been focused on Chinese and Japanese for uni and my other languages have been neglected. For the next three years, in particularly the middle one, I'm going to be heavily focused on learning Chinese for China/ using Chinese in China/ learning Chinese for my final degree exams so I won't have a lot of time to devote to other languages so why not take time now? I've become really interested in Classical languages, Greek and Latin and also Egyptian and Assyrian as well as German, Italian and Russian so I may start talking about them a bit more often.

I've started using stop-clocks when I study to try to encourage me to study. An hour spent looking at a Chinese textbook with long intervals procrastinating on facebook isn't a complete spent studying. Hopefully by being strict and recording minutes that has solely been dedicated to study will help me to see how much [or little] I've actually done so I can say that I've actually spent a certain amount of time studying and not just some of that time studying with long facebook breaks.