Some weeks, maybe one month ago, I stopped adding new cards in my Anki because I'd like to spend less time reviewing cards so I can spend more time writing in English. Every morning my number of cards to be reviewed is still fifty, which is the maximum I set. That means every morning, I have AT LEAST 50 cards to review but it could be 60, 100 or 5000!! I have no idea about how many cards I need to memorise perfectly and how long it will take until my daily number of cards to be reviewed will decrease under 50. I'd like it to shrank to 30 before I allow myself to add new cards. And in the meanwhile I'm accumulating frustration by finding out very useful words and phrases I'd love to “anki”. I find these items in Facebook memes, short texts and videos. I comfort myself by thinking that they aren't going to disappear! I mean the vocabulary I need to learn is still huge and this abundance will still be there when I decide to start nibbling it again! Which makes me feel better and worse at the same time!!!

Yesterday my friend Paul sent me the link to an article from the Guardian. It was very difficult for me to read it. I read only one or two paragraphs of it and I didn't nearly understand them clearly. They contain so many unclear or even unknown words! The road is still very long!

And I can't wait to add Spanish, Italian and other languages to my daily practise. But at least these two languages are a lot easier than English to me.