Scraping by with Spanish streaks. Doing roughly 20-30 mins of Japanese a day. Since I’m not doing Irish and haven’t done it for a while I decided to whet my whistle more by studying Lojban. Honestly, restarting my Lojban journey ended up making the rest of my studies a lot easier. Things were novel and interesting again. Only been at it for 3 days, but I’m thinking I might end up temp replacing my Irish for Lojban, at least up until I’m at a decent enough level. And I’m hearing you can get to near-fluency by 6 months time. So going to be targeting that for at least conversational.

My maths and reading has taken a hit, but at least I’m studying more again. Also the heatwave still technically isn’t over for me, I’m still reaching 29C most nights, and there’s another major heatwave coming next week as far as I’ve heard. Just need to maintain what I can now and during then. Really don’t want to even get a days break, not to mimic what happened last time. It’s always incredibly difficult having to think you’re restarting from 0 again.

German discussion class at community college was weird. It was maybe the first time I’ve met students who are “weaker” than me, or even anywhere near my level.

Despite spending 9 months so far learning German, my journey has been through self study, a German tutor, live practice in Berlin and finally a free club. At every situation, the other German speakers were far better than me in German across all skill levels.

But now that I’ve signed up for an at level class, I’m finding other students who (like me) struggle with prepositions, die/der/das, Nebensatz and so forth. It’s somewhat eye opening to see the struggles of fellow students.