I speak-ey Engurisha, no?
Learning French and German in school, not very good at either (can read passably, but this is due to the large number of near-English words in French eg. supermarche) but will improve
very rapidly in the months between now and my GCSEs.
Took up learning Japanese back in September, I needed a hobby and it's certainly quite a challenge! No classes available where I live, no decent books in the shops. Learnt the Kana until Christmas, which was easy but I was very lazy about it. Managed to get a
Kanji dictionary about a week and a half ago. Since then have been learning 5/6/7 Kanji a day and revising them at weekends. Will continue doing this until my half-term holidays in about a fortnight.
During my holidays, I'll cement my knowledge of everything I've done so far and basically halt the project so that I can focus exclusively on my GCSEs. I've done zero work for the past five years and at this rate I'll get maybe two As, a B and loads of Cs.
This doesn't work for me.
After my GCSEs, I'll take up Japanese again, aiming for at least 10 Kanji a day during the summer. I'd planned to memorize 500 Kanji this year, which is a target I'll easily meet. But I'd like to be nearer 1000. Japanese is great fun, but it's difficult as hell to get any work done when I have to prioritise school and the PC is ever-calling. Learning a language is very mentally taxing, you could spend a whole day doing it and gain nothing because you didn't concentrate properly.
Finally, Latin seems a very interesting language to learn. I hope to go into a classical history field later in life, so I'm very interested in learning it.
Although, compared to an Asian language it'd be so easy I might just do it on a long bus journey or something.
