Spring has most definitely sprung! It’s warm, it’s sunny, and it’s not even March. Although it almost is. Here’s my language learning goals for March 2019.

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What happened in February?

Language Stories: Make Hokkien Cool Again – The most recent episode of Language Stories season 2 was about Hokkien, and in particular in this episode, Penang Hokkien. Listen and watch what our interviewees are doing to make Hokkien cool again.

How to Overcome Shyness When Speaking a Foreign Language – We’ve probably all felt shier than we’d like at some point when attempting to speak. This post gets you started on overcoming it.

How to Get the Most from Your Online Language Lessons with a Tutor – This article was sponsored by Lusa Language School. After 10 hours of their Portuguese lessons online, I share my advice on getting the most from your online language lessons.

8 Things You’ll Learn at Women in Language – Not long now! To share a little about what to expect from this year’s Women in Language, I picked 8 presentations at random to share with you. (There’s still time to get your ticket too!)

Language Learning Review for February

The first couple of weeks were great for language learning then half term came! I love having extra time with Ashley (my teacher husband) but school holidays do always affect my language learning routine. I don’t mind too much though as I think it’s good to disrupt a routine every once in a while to make sure it’s still worth doing and give you a chance to check in when you get back to it.

I did get the chance to look at Ainu though as part of my challenge to learn more about indigenous languages this year. It’s pretty interesting!

Language Learning Goals for March

Guarani

I’m working my way through my course book and mixing this with writing my own sentences based on the translation exercises in the book or just from what I want to write that day.

Korean

Vocabulary – I will keep using Drops on an (almost!) daily basis.

Grammar – My focus is still reviewing each lesson of the Talk To Me In Korean Grammar 1 online course with my notes.

Reading – Not something I’m focusing on much this month.

Listening – I listen each workday to an episode from the SBS Korean podcast feed. I also end most of my 20 minute study sessions with a quick song on YouTube. I know it’s not regular spoken speech but I find it helpful to follow the letters and words and see if I can keep up!

Writing – As I review each of my TTMIK Grammar 1 notes, I type out my attempts for each lesson and submit the text to Lingora (our sponsor for Language Stories!). It helps a lot, as typing and handwriting in a language like Korean with a different script are 2 different skills.

Speaking – I’m not planning on a lesson in March as our weekends are quite busy!

Others

I’m still using Streaks app, which works well at keeping track.

I use a mixture of things in my sessions. As I tend to end up with 2 sessions a month for each language, I try and use the first session for each language for input and the second session for output.

Here’s what I’m using for each language:

French – Nothing specific! Writing prompts, news, Easy French etc.

Spanish – Nothing specific! Writing prompts, news, Easy Spanish etc.

GermanOnline German Club for listening

ItalianOnline Italian Club for listening

PortuguesePractise Portuguese for listening and my notes from my lessons with Lusa in January

Japanese – an older version of this Teach Yourself Japanese book, Terrace House!

Chinese – I’ve been enjoying using YoYo Chinese lately!

Indonesian – reviewing Teach Yourself Complete Indonesian, which I used to study the language a few years ago.

DutchLearndutch.org for listening

Esperanto – I’ve been going through some lessons on Lernu.net

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