I love what your channel has become as you transitioned into the post-college "adult world". I love seeing adults with careers and other hobbies fit languages into their lives
Every time you practically apologize for doing so little, I'm amazed that you do so much! Glad to see your update. Always detailed, honest, informative, and -- last but not at all least -- inspirational. Thank you!
I agree so much about goals being flexible! I try to think about it like this: my past self wanted to do something, but I'm not failing myself if I want to go from a different angle. My past self would be proud that I'm being conscientious and doing the best thing for me!
Hi Abigail! Maybe you recognize me from langtwt. I feel so related to everything you said. This year has felt like "a failure" but constantly reminding myself of my humanity has been what has aided me a lot. It's so good to see people being humans online. Thanks for your vid!
Yes of course! And I'm glad you enjoyed this video! I also love seeing people being honest humans online, it's part of why I love the langtwt community so much!
It's amazing that you have stuck with your language learning this long, with how much has been going on in your life. Many, many people just drop out. I remember how disappointed I was when your former language partner dropped out. I hope that I will still see you here ten years from now.
Aw thank you! I have a feeling you probably will, I've been trying to learn languages since I was in elementary school (just didn't really know how to go about it at the time!) and making videos for more than half my life too. I think if I stop doing Polyglot Progress in the next 10 years it'll only be because I'm doing something else with videos/film and languages :)
I think I've actually been doing decently at keeping up with my goals. They sort of seem similar to yours. My main goal for Hebrew was to improve my reading comprehension, not center Anki as much and just find more purpose in general. I think Polylogger has helped because I get rewarded for diversifying how I study. I think last year I was really obsessed with "putting in the hours". I've also just been trying to reconnect with why I wanted to study Hebrew in the first place. I do find Judaism interesting, but I feel like Hebrew was also a placeholder for other languages I've lost motivation for in the past and my whole life in general. It was sort of like a reset button and I think it did its job. So I'm just thinking about how I'll put Hebrew more into maintenance mode without it feeling like quitting. Lately I haven't been putting in as many hours, but I've actually been progressing more. I've been forcing myself to read more Hebrew articles online even though I'm constantly looking up words that I already know. The more I just let myself do that, the more I could read more normally. I've also been making Anki cards words for any word usages that confused me. Even if I feel like I should know that word. I feel like that has been a good use of Anki. I think it's good for me to consciously learn and review things I have a hard time acquiring. I think I've been getting some things about Anki backwards. I also got more into Finnish recently. I've been "studying" Finnish since 2020 and even before that I just picked up random Finnish vocabulary just from listening to Finnish music. At first my study methods for Finnish have been very wishy washy and passive. Since I've been less passive, I've been noticing more progress. I'm still taking it fairly slow and I'm not aiming for perfect consistency. I'm intentionally not using Anki because I don't want to feel obligated to study Finnish every single day. I'm also not bothering to log my hours. I think I might start using Anki when I hit a plateau. I'd say it's progressing about as fast as Hebrew. I think studying Finnish has also helped me get more perspective and feel more refreshed. I'm just noticing more and more that I need a break from Hebrew, but I still want to do language learning. I get to revisit things I miss about language learning when I study Finnish.
@@jonna7777 I didn't really use many resources. I also didn't study to speak, so I can't guarantee my methods will help with speaking. I started off by using subs2srs and intensely reading/listening to short youtube videos that had subtitles. Eventually I could listen to predictable/generic podcasts. That helped me progress super quickly.
My goal last year was to have a one year streak on Duolingo. [My Target Language is Korean] After reaching a 300+ day streak I realized that I stopped making any progress months ago and decided to rework my study methods and routine. So now I’m bringing back my daily No English Hour and decided I’ll only be studying my textbooks once a week. I’m also considering bringing Memrise back into my daily routine since it seems to work a lot better than a lot of other apps I’ve tried in the past. I am happy to say that I can semi-confidently sound out some Korean words, read people’s names, and read English loan words! Now I just need to work on grammar and expanding my vocabulary. 🥰 Good luck with your language learning everyone! We can do it! 🥳
Have you heard of Tadoku? It’s a reading challenge, there’s one in September. I heard about it on the minimmersion discord and will be trying it for Spanish, seems like a potential thing to get French reading in?
I would say my reading in French is between a2-b1 and I understand le Petit prince pretty well. I think there’s a lot of words I haven’t seen but the sentence structure is simple enough. Having said that it definitely takes longer for me to read than texts meant for learners I get in class
In your case, I would focus on one or two languages with active study and do passive study (such as listening) in the other ones. I would do this until getting a solid foundation in these two languages and then bring the other ones to the main focus. I have been studying four languages.... but doing groundbreaking study on only one of them.
I've actually got 3 left! But yes, as soon as I finish my current book in progress in German I'll be returning to Percy Jackson and reading the last 3! My reading speed and comprehension has improved a lot so those shouldn't take me as long as the first 2 :)
@@PolyglotProgress Yes, reading does get easier once you built up momentum. It's a very exciting series. Especially book 3! I read the first 3 HP books back to back, then took a break this past month. I'm ready to go back to it later this week.
I totally disagree! My life is so much more fulfilling thanks to the other languages I know and I really love learning more. I definitely feel happier and more myself when I get to have more than English in my life.
