Language Studies I

I've been continuing my laguage studies hard to the core lately. I love how much passion I have to learn. One thing I'm having trouble with is, I often find my focus being split, because I want to learn four languages lol! I KNOW I KNOW! That sounds ridiculous! But I'm serious about all of them! And I truly believe that I can achieve fluency in them all. Well that something that I KNOW. But as far as my progress I am at a good level in all aspects...

ENGLISH - 100% (lol!)

SPANISH - 13%

PORTUGUESE - 16%

JAPANESE - 10%

FRENCH - 5%

That's how my mind feels right now. And those percentages are calculated pretty much by how much I know ABOUT the language+my level of slight fluency at this point (which is still very choppy of course after only 2 months), and also my understanding of how sentence structure/masc. and fem. forms of words, and word order, and how vowels and consonants sound (which for Japanese (Romaji) and Portuguese can be harder than one thinks). So I'm saying I'm calculating it by how much I know at this point, but of course how much I still don't know.

Once I get to the level in which I can form a sentence on my own from scratch (not something I heard on a language course, or from phrases, but my very own sentences), then I will feel more confident. AND on that note, that's why my Portuguese in particular is at 16% (in my mind), because today in the store I was forming a few little sentences of my own and I was shocked and happy about it. I mean of course I was doing it in my mind and in sotto tone, but I was thinking of sentences! Yaaay! It's the first of the languages that I've done that with.

In conclusion I also have to express something I've learned so far along this language learning journey. Even when we start growing into adults and stuff, we are sooooo still children. I realize this everytime I try to repeat or construct a sentence in another language. I have to talk like I did when I was learning English. I mean when we really think about it, when you say a sentence in another language at a low fluency, you are talking like a 2 or 3 year old. Little vocabulary, little understanding of how to say the words exactly, and you only know the most simple and common words and phrases. Of course then as your grow you learn more by hearing more. It's natural to our mind. But we are truly still children when it comes to learning about something from scratch. Like my mom and the computer lol! I had to share that it's been on my mind for a long time. My next entry I will talk about my exercise stuff :D

☼LPZ