During the 2013 January ReadMod I had planned to just report my every day normal reading, which looked like it was around 60 pages a day in Japanese and Korean but then some friendly or not-so-friendly competition motivated me to crank it up a notch. I tried to do as much extensive reading as I could, but also push myself to do more intensive reading too. One thing became immediately clear, I haven’t been doing as much reading as I could be doing. I also realized manga is fun and easy to read, maybe I’ve leveled up a bit to where I can enjoy manga without too many look ups, or maybe I’ve just found the right stuff for myself to read. However I haven’t been reading enough manga, so I pushed myself to finish at least one volume of manga on the days I read manga.
The solution to all your problems.
Pushing myself to read a bit more in Korean and to read faster made a big difference, and I feel like I leveled up my Korean a bit, suddenly watching dramas is a little bit easier. I feel like my Japanese is getting better too but it’s been a steady increase all 2012 from doing daily reading and listening. I plan to keep my up reading like this as much as I can for the rest of the year. I also some how managed to start watching 10 different dramas, and I’m trying to finish up my last semester of school. So things are crazy.
Continuing strategy
I finally want to finish Harry Potter in my parallel Japanese/Korean reading project because I’m already acquiring a list of Korean literature I want to read and I’ve got plenty of Japanese books waiting for me too. I also want to try to tear through as much manga as I can this year in Japanese. I feel like there is no stopping now that I’ve pushed myself to the point I can pull this much reading off, so I’m gonna try my best to just keep reading every day like I was throughout January. I feel less pressure now that I don’t have to count pages or worry about hitting a certain number each day.
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Terrific goal. Thanks for the post.
Reblogged this on L.P.'s and commented:
Reading goals – fantastic idea.
lol @ the not-so-friendly competition. Some people will always get a bit carried away. Really impressed with how far your language learning has come this year, after spending so long frustrated with it, you’ve finally found your path to fluency and it’s simply an inevitable process at this point. Keep it up man!