Okay, so, during the summer I want to continue my language studies but I'm very conflicted!
OBVIOUSLY I need to carry on with Spanish! Its the language I will be taking in the Fall and one of the two languages I want to minor in, BUT the lack of other school responsibilities will give me ALOT more free time and since I'm participating in TAC 2010 over at HTLAL on Team J - I have an obligation to myself and my team to learn Japanese, since I'm off to a pretty dead end start, the summer is the ideal time to catch up and cover some serious ground...
BUT I also want to study ASL again and I have free resources readily available.
However, Spanish has managed to Usurp my passive Arabic and I'd like to remedy that before it gets too far gone...(I wrote about it on HTLAL, I'll have to post about it here also....) and Arabic is one of the languages I want to minor in, it'll be much easier and very, very, very nice if I dont have to start back at ground zero once I began actually taking classes.
But theres also my new penpal, a fellow Esperantist! Whom I've promised to study Esperanto with. I think that I can feasibly manage 2-3 languages over the summer because
1) I've just gotta keep Spanish going and learn all the material I've been able to 'get-by' in class without.
2) I'm just trying to revive Arabic a little bit, because my passive understanding of it is suddenly gone!
3) Espearanto is pretty EASY to learn.
But, wait! What about Japanese and ASL?
Well...ASL may have to wait a bit...Til next term or next year, Little M, my friends daughter is only 1 right now, and if I hang around her mom I can pick up a little bit more but I already know about 150 signs, 75 of which are useful, day-to-day, grammatically correct signs!
And Japanese, well, I'm going to try a Zen type approach to them, I'm going to learn Kanji and Kana and start reading Manga and continue watching Anime in Japanese and try to gradually wean myself off the English subs, as there are very FEW resources in my area that I have access to for Japanese that are worth using. In the Fall I'll begin an agressive Pimsleur regimen if nothing better crops up, but I used Pimsleur and everyone has told me how rigid and 'un-natural' the language is that you learn from there, so I'd rather avoid it as my introduction to the language. But if I have to, I will (go back) to using it.
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