I want to try this too…
Do you have children?
- Yes, though none of them living at home anymore
- Yes, some or all of them living at home
- Not yet, but on the way
- No
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I set low daily goals, but slightly high weekly goals.
Every day is about pampering myself to do more. More stimulation, more movement, or maybe more calm. Weekly goals can certainly easily fail, being unpredictable.
It’s more motivation than discipline, but still required to stretch for so long.
It’s also that I have alone life, and slightly irregular work schedule. Unexpected things everyday and sometimes nights, but very few ties. Overall, I usually have enough time.
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That’s interesting, I wonder how that looks for you with an example?
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I don’t do as much as I should (so actually low goals right now), but it’s the point for weekly goals and recaps in WaniKani Community.
I didn’t set goals for Chinese listening, but I ended up listening and watching… I don’t know about amount, but variety of tasks also matters (so needs plan).
Motivation really dies down. Maybe relevance would increase motivation.
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I wonder if people are mostly childfree or just on the younger side? Feeling underrepresented here by not voting no 
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age was the very first question:
so a big junk of the community is in the child-bearing age-range but from what I have gathered from ppl with children around me: Time is a very precious commodity and none of the parents I know are much online. (I don’t know any stay-at-home parents.)
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Though that doesn’t mean the respondents are identical - particularly since the initial poll shows 193 votes , and this one is 25% so far… So there might not be a meaningful correlation
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m the former. And as Biblio said, probably parents are online less. Maybe the numbers will change later in the week.
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I was wondering the same. I think it might be both xD
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I don’t have kids, am def the age to have kids, and more of my friends my age don’t have kids than have them. I don’t think my friend group is all that representative of the wider world, but I feel like there are a lot more adults without kids than in most previous generations.
But I also think that not only having a time intensive hobby like learning a foreign language, but on top of that spending times in online forums about learning languages is going to weed out a lot of people with kids from being in the Natively population.
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One thing I wonder about in the “who are we” category of thoughts is who uses Natively (ratings) vs Natively forums.
For example, right now the polls in the first post here have up to 195 voters.
But check this out, there are more than 300 people just reading Yotubato:
bonkers.
I’m not even among the almost 1300 people who have started or finished it.
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wow.
I wonder if these are people who got here from the WK book club, since this is a popular choice for beginners. Doesn’t look like they made it over to the forums 
Where were these 1300 users when the westfold fell?
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I know plenty of people who use the site but haven’t even made a profile, not everyone uses it for tracking, some just use it as a lookup or for inspiration.
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In Yotsuba’s case, probably from waaaaaaaaaay more places than just WK. It is possibly the most frequently recommended beginner manga I’ve seen. (Whether that means it’s actually a good choice or not, is a different topic)
But there’s certainly a number of “ah yeah, that’s another one that had a WK club, ain’t it” books on here
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I mean, technically, officially, Irish is an official language. But that’s more “aspirational” on behalf of the government than the usual case for countries with multiple official languages.
iirc one of the motivations for founding this site was brandon’s belief that it is not 
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This one is interesting in ways you can’t actually answer because some countries (like the one I am in) have non-official “special placed” languages, where another language is unofficially official in everything but status
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I don’t think I have come across a language that is basically used by everyone in a country but not an official language in that country. TIL. 
The question came about because I noticed we don’t have a single African user in the polls who often (depending on the country they live in) - by sheer necessity - are polyglots. Then I wondered, how many ppl live in countries with multiple languages and are they forced/do they bother learning them. The answer apparently is not many and no. 
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African countries are a great example to my point btw lol
Some of them have only a small part of the languages in it as official compared to the unofficially used languages sperating tribes and etc
Another example is Israel, where the official language is Hebrew but Arabic is considered by law a “special status” language and thus required to learn in a school in addition to English
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To be fair, the question was “are you fluent” not “have you learned”, which for a lot of people is a much higher bar that they might never feel comfortable describing themselves as in a second language. I’ve studied my country’s other official language to a high level, but I would never claim to be fluent in it.
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I wanted a high bar. The question is phrased as intended. I did not want ppl to reply yes, if they had a few years in school because it’s mandatory. I wanted ppl to reply yes, if they feel comfortable using the language to live their lives, similar to their mother tongue. 
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