June progress report: things are starting to look ugly

Hello,

This is the June progress report. You may be wondering why there aren't April and May progress reports. This is simply becuase there was barely any progress in these months. If I wrote posts about them, they would be lack of progress reports, not progress reports.

In April, I studied literally nothing and in May I only studied a little. The reason is that I had many business trips to Riyadh. I took my study materials with me on the trips, but studying while abroad is much easier said than done. The trips not only jeopardized my studies, but everything I did in Amman, my social life included.

At the start of this year I had a simple "broad-stroke" kind of milestone. I wanted to finish volume 2's 12 chapters before Ramadan. At the time, it seemed like there was ample time. More than one week for each volume 2 lesson. But the project in Saudi came and the trips came, and my studies jumped out of the window..

By now I completed Chapter 2, so I have 10 chapters left. This only includes reading comprehension and grammar. It does not include memorizing vocab or kanjis. I haven't studied kanjis in ages now. I am even starting to forget Kanjis that I learned.

hmmm, thinking of my situation, one weird Japanese phrase comes to mind: 骨折り損のくたびれもうけ

A word of advice to young Japanese language students: Study all the Japanese you can before graduating. Take my word for it, because after you graduate (and hopefully get a full-time job):
1. you will barely have time to study
2. barely anybody (teachers or senior volunteers) will have time to give you lessons after 5-6 and on weekends.

until next time.