I only read one book and a half on three that I was suppose to read. I know it could seems like an excuse but I was sooo busy on work and at home that I lost my motivation. I even stopped studying french, my second foreign language... Christmas is always a critical moment for me, I love the light, the music, the atmosphere, but i hate the run for gifts, the amount of people out on the streets. This stress me a lot and I can't enjoy the Christmas vibration, but first of all I miss those who are no longer here with us, it's always a sad period. I do prefere the New Year's Day. I imagine it as a new beginning, a magical day full of potential and I usually spend it planning my new bullet journal and starting new habits that will be part of my life for two or three months (don't laugh! Who has good habits that last longer?) But it's ok, it's always good to have new goals, it makes me feel alive and it seems I can do everything I want.
Now my question is: what are your goals for 2022? Mine are:
- a new language (try again with French or Spanish or Portuguese?)
- declutter and reorder all the stuff on my PC and smartphone 😣 a hard work!!!
- to read at least 6 book in a foreign language
But for now have a good holidays and stay safe!
Happy New Year to you too, Dani! Good luck with your New Year resolutions!
Happy New Year, Dani :) I wish you the best with your New Year resolutions, but if you let me give just an opinion. Instead of giving other languages a try again, why not focus in your English? Which is already good, but as I do, I'm sure you got a lot of room for your improvement in your English. This will give you more confidence to learn other languages in the future, but of course, it's purely a suggestion. It's your goal, live your life, buddy! We can make it, and by the way, mine are:
Get to C1 Level in English (Though I'm considered C1, I believe I'm still not there in certain aspects.)
Be able to hold a basic conversation and write my journal in Korean
Find a part-time job which I truly like
Get over certain things
Be happier
And I think that's it... Actually, I didn't stop to focus on creating my resolutions, I think I should. Hahaha.
@BvHvSu26 thanks for the corrections and Happy New Year :)
@Nori never put limit to the relolutions :D You're right I should focus on improve my English but I'm so impatient to learn something new. I'm feeling like I'm stuck with English and maybe to shift the focus from it to another language will help to refresh my mind. As for you I think your English is a high level and I'd like to know your personal method of learning. Have you written something about that? Well good luck with your resolutions and let us know your progress :)
Happy New Year Dani! Those are great resolutions, good luck with them! :-) I haven't really thought about mine yet, I usually do that literally on the last day of December, lol. Off the top of my head, I'd say:
@Dani... Wishing you a wonderful New Year! I hope we can all focus on our personal goals more in 2022. The pandemic has taken a lot of energy that could have been put into accomplishing more in our lives. Wishing you health and happiness in 2022. All the best.
@ManeskinQueen: ahahah your last resolution is on my list for ages. Something like "go to the gym or go swimming, eat well, drink more water", etc. There's no way! As for the other points, I like them, I'm curious about why the Finnish language, it's unusual. I would like to help you with Italian speaking but I don't know how to do, I have the same problem with English, maybe we can help each other. Tell me if you know how to do it :-)
Michelle: It's sooo true, I feel I've lost so many energy and motivation in the past two years, but I think I can consider myself lucky. I 'm triyng to concentrate the efforts to what makes me happy and to my family and friends. In some ways this period helped me to prioritize what is more important to me. I wish all the best to you and your beloved ones. Keep following your dreams! :-)
@Dani: Exactly, it's just never going to happen 😂 Why Finnish is a good question... I started learning it when I was 15 (22 years ago, astonishingly), because I really liked a Finnish band back then, lol. Without proper resources (not even internet! not even a textbook or a Finnish dictionary) it was nearly impossible so I gave up after a few months. But some words and phrases have stuck with me until today and I still love the sound of the language. So I'd like to give it another go one day. Also I'm just curious if I'd be more successful now with more access to learning materials, or if the language is really just too hard for me ;-) It would be great if we could help each other with our speaking skills! I'm not an English native speaker so I speak with an accent and I'm not perfect, but we could still try to have a conversation, just to practice speaking, if you like. My idea was to try and find someone to talk to on skype or something like that - would you be interested in such a language exchange? :-)
@Dani, thank you very much!
@ManeskinQueen I've never used skype...I know, I have to be the only one on earth! :D Let me understand how it works and we can try :)
@Dani Hi! Of course I can write about my journey with English, which is something I've never done so far. Although I have sooo much to improve!! So freaking much. Who knows we can be friends :) I'll write about my language learning journey pretty soon.