Completing My Language Resources

Small wins with three languages

📅 Week 29/53 | Study Log 2026

I had a lot of fun with my language studies this week. Although I didn't complete everything I'd originally planned, I'm really happy with how the week turned out.

I made a lot of progress through several French resources, found a C-drama to start watching in Mandarin, and even watched an episode of anime in Japanese.

My weeks usually start slowly while I'm just trying to reach my one-hour daily target. By the end of the week, I tend to have more free time and energy, so that's when most of my studying gets done.

🥐 French

Making these pie charts each week is always interesting because they reveal patterns I don't always notice while I'm studying. This week, I spent almost twice as much time studying as I did last week, with studying making up nearly half of my French learning time. I only did a small amount of writing and didn't practice speaking, but I was so motivated to make progress through my resources that I kept using them each day.

With all that progress I was making, I finished the Short Stories in French book that I have been slowly working through for over a year. I had hoped to finish Dylane's French pronunciation course, but I still have just under ten lessons remaining.

It's surprisingly easy to lose track of all the language resources I own, so I spent some time updating my Notion resource tracker. Seeing my completion percentages and overall progress motivates me to keep working through them instead of constantly starting something new.

I didn't get to review words in my L'Étranger deck, so that project is on pause for now. But I did make time to start doing research on French Immersion programs in Canada for my self-study project.

Migaku Stats

• French Total Words Known: 3349 → 3382 words

• L’Étranger Part 1 Deck: 119/446 cards reviewed (no progress this week)

  

🧧 Mandarin

I finally found a C-drama, All The Way To The Sun, to watch! I'm not setting any goals to finish it because I know myself. I'm just happy to have a series ready whenever I feel like watching something in Mandarin.

Unfortunately, the subtitles are embedded into the video, so I can't sentence mine or save vocabulary from it. I actually don't mind. It's nice to simply enjoy the show without turning every activity into a study session.

I also made progress in 50 Chinese Coffee Breaks. Writing characters neatly on the lines definitely feels harder than it used to, but it’s been nice getting back into the habit.

I watched a few random YouTube videos as well, and I'm still surprised by how much I understand after taking such a long break. My Migaku vocabulary is now at 2,744 words.

🍜 Japanese

I only spent a little time with Japanese this week, but I watched an episode of a new anime (Clannad) my partner shared with me. I didn’t get to Lesson 3 of my textbook yet, but I’ll aim to complete it soon.

✨Language Wins of The Week

• 🎉 Finished Short Stories in French after having it for over a year!

• 📚 Updated my Notion language resource tracker and made progress on some resources.

• 🎞️ Found a Mandarin C-drama I'm excited to keep watching.

📅 Next Week’s Plans

Since I didn’t complete some of these last week, I’ll be leaving them on the list.

• 🥐 French: Complete Dylane’s French pronunciation course and review vocab deck.

• 🧧 Mandarin: Complete Exercise 4 in 50 Chinese Coffee Breaks.

• 🍜 Japanese: Complete Lesson 3 in my Japanese textbook and review Migaku Academy deck

Thanks for being here! See you next week.