🙋 Language goals for 2024? How did you do in 2023? ✨

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I had some pretty vague goals at the start of 2023; like so many other before me, let’s break them down:

  • Read more in general: Easy success. I finished 68 books this year (all book types combined) compared with 24 in 2022. I’ve also read for a cool 267 days so far this year, and managed to hit one month where I read every single day! :white_check_mark:
  • Become more comfortable with different styles of writing and author voices: Hard to track, but I probably succeeded given the larger number of books I managed to get through this year. :white_check_mark:
  • 30 LN/novels completed: 16/30 :x: Well, I got over halfway at least. :sweat_smile:
  • Slowly pick up manga off my TBR pile and work my way through them: Another easy success: I read 40 entire manga this year (compared to 8 last year). :white_check_mark:
  • Listen to more audiobooks: I did fantastic; I got really lucky in that most of the book clubs I’ve participated in this year had an audiobook I could pick up. By my rough count I listened to 6 full audiobooks this year (7 when I finish medium) as I read along. :white_check_mark:

2024 Goals:

  • Achieve at least 3 bingos on my bingo card
  • Read through all my physical manga (or read enough to decide not to continue it if need be)
  • Work my way through the rest of the audiobooks I picked up this year (I won’t jot down an actual list; just gotta get through more)
  • Finish watching 5 TV shows and 5 movies in Japanese - harder than it looks; I barely watch anything in English so I’m predisposed to not watch anything in Japanese either.
  • Finish reading FLESH & BLOOD (series) | L34 : Ugh, I hate to even say it; it’s one of those series you read and read and hope it never ends. But I’d rather read to the end than never finish it. And there are plenty of bonus stories and drama CDs I’ll need to work on in-between, so the party should last me all year.
  • :fire: 2024 Spicy Modifier: Only read books and join book clubs for books I already own :fire: : Ain’t gonna happen, lol. But I’ll try my best, and only buy the new books that look really, really good. (Watch me immediately break this…)

Bonus 2024: :es: Dust off that Spanish
Ah, the eternal “I should probably pick my school Spanish back up”. Now that Natively’s got Spanish locked in its sights, I’m hoping to be able to access that everlasting well of motivation called “peer pressure”.

Any particular reason you’re starting on the third book, out of curiosity?

I audibly snorted at this. Very nice.

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