In the interim, I will tell you that I managed to commit myself to five 90 minute Spanish classes a week and four 60 minute Basque classes a week. My second (actually second and fifth, if you count French as my second and Russian as my fourth) language acquisition will be getting quite the workout for the next few months.
I'm excited about this as I've already seen the change in pace in our Spanish class by cutting our class from 4 students to 2. Increasing the frequency will only help me learn more. I am so, so, so impatient. I'm impatient to get a job. I'm impatient to get back home. I'm impatient to be able to communicate how I want to communicate (not fits and starts, trying to remember the imperfect tense or subjunctive mood of a particular verb). I'm impatient for everything. And part of my New Year's resolution is increasing my patience. Or at least doing something about it when I can change the outcome. So here is my change. I've committed myself to research on language (either my research at work or learning the language) from 8am to 7:30pm Monday through Friday. Here's hoping it pays off.
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