After years of trying to balance my creative work with my studies, I think I've finally found a sweet spot. I am thinking of reviving this blog as part of my studies.
It's really hard to study when you are teaching, making music, podcasts, novels and blogging on top of that, but by trying to blend and overlap some of these things, it gets easier and easier.
Here is what my study routine looks like and I've been good with it for the past month and a half:
Every night before I go to sleep, I watch media in Japanese for about 15-30 minutes, 10-30 seconds at a time dissecting and repeating each line and studying the new vocabulary. I have a vocabulary list that a check a few times a day.
I live in Japan so it's important for me to study Japanese but I also want to study other languages, and the balance between these two can be very challenging, especially with everything else going on. So my nights are for Japanese and my mornings are for another language I am currently exploring.
When I wake up, I set aside 15-30 minutes for studying another language of choice. Right now I'm focused on Indonesian again.
I will probably be focused on Indonesian until I feel like I can hold a conversation about interesting topics (I'm guessing 6-12 months), and then I am going to get back to Cantonese, and then Swahili. From there I have a list of European languages, Indian and African languages I'm interested in, but let's focus on Indonesian for now.
I hope to make this account a place where I practice writing diaries and stories in my target languages. It'll just be a short few sentences, maybe 2-4 times a week, but I hope it can help me remember the words I've been studying.
I'm excited to get back to this account because it's just been sitting there and I have so many topics I want to talk about but if I'm typing in other languages, that's really not going to target the same people. I hope to engage more with Indonesian users and Japanese users for the time being and getting more active in their communities, in the future connecting with many local communities again. It's been a while!
Here are the verbs I've been studying this week:
masuk - to enter
keluar - to exit
pulang - to go home
mengganti - change
berharap - to hope
bekerja - to work
berkembang - to progress
berjalan - to walk
berhenti - to stop
Bahasa Jepang saya berhenti berkembang (My Japanese stopped progressing)
Saya tidak mau mengganti kamu (I don't want to change you)
Saya berharap dia suka saya. (I hope she likes me)
Dia berhenti bekerja dan pulang. (He stopped working and went home)
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