#so we’ll see. but the goal is to finish all of these stacks by 2022

[guillemelgat]

(Late) January Language Goals / Update

I just realized that I made a goals post for the beginning of the year, but not for the beginning of the month! I’ve actually been doing a lot of language study this month, so I figured I should make the post and update y’all on how language things are going.

I’m trying to do one language per month, which will allow me to cover all my languages and add one new one as well. This month, I’m working on Romani, which I’ve been meaning to work on for the past two years and just haven’t. I’m reviewing and drilling all the lessons in Ronald Lee’s Das-duma Rromanes, which is what I used to start learning the language and which covers a lot of bases for a basic understanding. Every Sunday, I’ve been making a stack of flashcards and exercises based on the lessons, and I’ve been doing one lesson every day throughout the week. I think it’s definitely helping, at least to expand my vocabulary. I’m really excited about how it’s going, but then again I would literally die for Romani so I’m pretty sure I would ever not be excited to be studying it. The goal is to get myself to a level of confidence where I can actually use it to talk to people (God forbid I talk to people!) but that’s a high bar so it might be a while. Either way, I think the month is going fairly well so far, so we’ll see!

As for the blog, I know I’ve been terrible about posting and I’m not sure if I’ll be much better this quarter, but I’m going to try my hardest to finish the IYIL posts (SIDE NOTE BUT DID Y’ALL SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WE’RE GETTING A DECADE OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES STARTING IN 2022?? BECAUSE IT’S ABOUT GOTDAM TIME). I also have a few translations that I’ve been meaning to post, so hopefully I can get those out too.

#i'm probably going to be a bit mia on here but i'm going to try my best to make posts #maybe having a busy semester will make me want to post things here more idk #but either way i'm not sure how much stuff i'm going to be churning out #god i love romani so much #like i'm like i couldn't possibly have this much love for a language #and then i go back to studying it and i'm like ope guess i can #i really want to talk to people in it but i'm very nervous about it #because i don't like talking in languages until i'm absolutely perfect #but idk i might see if i can find a place to put it to good use #i know there's a big community in the midwest and i'd love to do volunteer stuff with helping refugees and stuff #if i can find it and work up the courage to do it #because i'd love to speak it more and talk to actual roma and like just do more there?? #anyway that's all that's the update #hope y'all are having a good january #romani #language goals #random stuff #general:goals #romani:general #romani:goals

[novelconcepts]

recently every time i start a book i see on Tumblr a day or so later you've recently finished it 😅 (The Mime Order Series, One Last Stop)... so what's next on your to read list? it's like seeing into my future

Haha, what timing! I just started The Kingdoms, by Natasha Pulley this morning (after finishing Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid), and then it’ll probably be something from one of these towers:

In theory, Mister Impossible, but I’ve mostly been redoing the first book in that series via audiobook while I run, so I have to finish that first.

#ask #tbr #I am awful at reading the books I already have vs #getting too excited about new release dates and eating through those first #so we’ll see. but the goal is to finish all of these stacks by 2022