Snowflake Challenge - Challenge The Fourth

[lebateleur]

Challenge #4

In your own space, create some goals. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Here are mine:

My Reading goals this year are a bit different. As always, I plan to:

• Read at least 100 books cover-to-cover, and
  
• Read three books for each new one I acquire.

Usually, I also make a list of 5-10 books from the unread pile I plan to finish by the end of the year. But last year's disorder threw my reading into disorder, and I've started this year with an unusually large number of first time reads and rereads in progress alongside a sizeable TBR queue. Seeing as I have a genius for not sticking to "what I'll read next" lists as soon as I make them, this morning I put together a list of 50 books I need to read, reread, or finish reading. It's not a list of books I have to finish this year, or a list of the only books I'm allowed to read this year, but rather a list to see how many of the books, out of those I felt I might like to read this year on January 8th, I actually did read by December 31st.

Activity goals:

• Do yoga more regularly
• Sit zazen more regularly
• Strength train at least once a week
• Take a 3 to 5 mile walk most days of the week

Language goals

• Work through one Indonesian language resource from beginning to end
• Work through one Japanese language resource from beginning to end
• Work through one Korean language resource from beginning to end
• Work through one resource in another language from beginning to end

Writing goals:

• Complete getyourwordsout
• Complete inkingitout
• Post at least one piece of fiction to AO3 a month (even if it is only a drabble)
• Participate in at least three exchanges

これで以上です。

Comments

[bemused_writer]

Ohh, some very cool goals happening here! I love the language ones in particular. I also need to get back to practicing Japanese. :0

[lebateleur]

Thank you.^^ For all the griping I do about it, you could do worse than Mango Japanese if you want to pick up studying again, since you have a background in it. I find that having a small, discrete lesson to complete each day makes it likelier that I'll stick with studying than with a traditional textbook.

[bemused_writer]

Ohh, thank you for the suggestion! I'm trying Mango Japanese now and it's pretty solid so far. I'm still in the early section, so I figure I'll get a better idea of what it's like when I'm further in. Glad I can already read kana for it. XD

As for the traditional textbook, the trouble I'm always running into is they assume you're in a classroom setting, so there are a ton of assignments based on that, which doesn't always work as well if that's not the case. :/

[lebateleur]

That's the thing! I mean, getting dependent on romaji is not a good idea, but I don't know how complete beginners are supposed to use Mango without any understanding of kana.

And yeah, language textbooks for English speakers are pretty bad about assuming everyone's in a classroom setting. Rosetta Stone seems to be the best option for anyone who isn't, but it's not perfect either and holy crap is it expensive.

[bemused_writer]

Definitely agree that relying Romaji is bad, but yeah, a complete beginner would have a rough time, I'm thinking.

Some of the language books out there are so expensive. D: Definitely a bummer when it comes to language learning.