I can not believe December is already here. Time has flown by so quick. Actually this is my favorite part of the year. The time where my motivation increase so highly. The weather is incredible; the rain, the fall of snow and the wet streets make me so happy and alive inside.
As for my learning journey, i feel so motivated to study and improve my language skills. My plan was that by the end of the year, i would have finished my third level of chinese acquisition. But, for so many reasons, I couldn't finish it. Then, i will just continue where am I right now. What matters most is to get more undesrtanding and better ways to improve , especially my speaking and listening abilities.
The reason why I set some new goals that help me through this. I have always been trying to keep up with my goals and try as hard as possible to achieve almost an 70% if not 100%.
Improve my speaking and listening skills
Speaking and listening are one of the major things every language learner have to maintain, and that actually needs a lot of efforts and work. but, continuity always makes it better day by day. I believe in the process and i actually enjoy every moment and even the small steps I take into fluency ( maybe) .
What I basically do every single morning after I woke up, is having a 10 minutes of meditation , some physical stretching and breakfast , that time of breakfast , I would try to watch some chinese vloggers and try to indentify every things they say, basically I don't understand everything but this is the best training for my listening. Aslo, I've been trying one of the new methods that I discovered recently, and the method is, I try to listen to a chinese podcat as many times as I need, then I have to transcribe It and write down every single word I've heard. And what's really good about this Is that there Is a platform In which you can post your transciption and then you got correction from others.
As for speaking, I guess having native friends is really a good way to practice what you've learnt and make an everyday use of the target language. There Is also one of the ways I did (and still doing) Is to speak to myself. yeah, I Imagine myself talking to somebody about a certain topic and I try to make a convesation and use all the vocabulary I have in mind. That may actually sound crazy . but, It really worked.
Besides, I think online studygrams like instagram and twitter helps too, there are a lot of beautiful and helpful poeple out there, I 've learned so many things from them and to be honest, they keep me very motivated and even in the times I feel down on studying, i just look around one of my favorite profiles and I feel motivated again.