December, 3rd.
I’m switching it up! Mid-October I decided to take a break from Harta and focus on book club books. Now I think I will pick Harta back up and besides that just read whatever I want whenever I want. No guilt towards book club books!
Also, I saw the Goals & Plans 2025 + Review 2024 thread, which prompted me to do a summary of 2024 in my OP. After all, December barely counts as part of the year. 
I thought about making some goals, but … that doesn’t really work for me with where I’m at now. Here are some desires, though!
- do italki lessons again!
- find a tutor who speaks Japanese and Spanish, and get them to help me bring my Spanish up/back to conversational.
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- The speaking Japanese part is important because what my brain does is bring up words from whatever language I have been learning most recently, so if I can say that word and they just tell me what it is in Spanish, I think that would be great.)
- read more prose!
- honestly I would love to go on an aoitori book spree
- maybe keep track of how many books I read this year?
- oh, also, I had this idea for “reverse bingo”, might try that
Actually, I think maybe I’m getting a little burnt out? I mean, with all the stress that has happened and is continuing to happen this fall/early winter … I’m just tired and feeling like the joy is getting sucked out of things…
Or maybe it’s like my infatuation with Japanese is fading, because infatuation can never last forever, it has to change into something more stable and enduring at some point. I want Japanese to make my brain feel sparkly again! But on the other hand I recognize that my skills have improved and that makes it possible for me to access some of the things that I longed for before but were out of reach.
Is this the dreaded intermediate plateau??!!
Does anyone else have experience with that kind of transition that you would like to share? I would love to hear other peoples’ experiences with it.
