Today I have read an inspiring story about a 40-year-old woman, who took part in the triathlon and smashed a record. Several months before she took a part in the sporting event, she had an injury, but she managed to recover from the injury. Her power of determination helped her to overcome all obstacles and break a record. This woman is also mom of three kids and she also studied and became a lawyer. So she is really amazing woman who has showed that anything is possible. I also watched a video yesterday which was filmed by a young woman who I found also really inspiring. She is a content creator and works with English. Despite the fact that English is not her mother tongue she is pretty successful in her area of work. She has recently graduated. She was studding remotely and therefore she was able to visit different countries and meet a lot of great people. Her life that she has now it is all thanks to English and her determination to learn it. I also found her story interesting and motivational, because she managed to learn English to a high level and English opened so many doors for her. So after watching her video I was so motivated to learn English. What inspiring women I came across via the internet!

During the last days I had high temperature and couldn’t learn my target languages intensively. I could only lie in my bed and listen to podcasts and watch videos in English and German. While I was watching videos on YouTube, I came across a really interesting video, in which a young woman shared her story about how she learned German. Her German is really amazing now, but when she first arrived in Germany in order to work as au pair, her German was not so really good. As many au pairs she attended language courses, but they were not so effective. Then she started to work on her German on her own. Besides learning German intensively on her own, she also communicated a lot with her host family. She spent especially a lot of time with the kid, who she cared about. The kid was really outgoing and communicative and didn’t hesitate to say her about mistakes which she was making while speaking to him. He always said « You made a mistake again!“ and corrected her. On the one hand it hurt her a little bit that the kid always pointed out her mistakes, on the other hand it was really beneficial for her, because not every adult would dare to point out mistakes and correct them so directly and so often. So learning German on her own and speaking with kid and her host family helped her to reach a really high level in German. So I found her story really inspiring and now I am eager to learn German and my other target languages even more.

Today I don’t feel so good, because I have got a cold. Even though I don’t feel so good, I have decided to follow my schedule und to stay on track with my language learning. Today I have read two short articles in English and want to write about them. The first article was dedicated to the invention, which is aimed to reduce pollution of the ocean. An Italian invented a device which collects trash in rivers so that this trash doesn’t get into the ocean. The second article was about five-year-old girl who has written a book und gotten Guiness World record as the world youngest author. When she came to her parents and said that she was going to write a book, they didn’t expected that she would write a book seriously. They thought that it would be some scribble, but she had written a book and even illustrated it with her own drawings. Some people got interested and offered to publish her book. The book is about a feline who got out of the house and got lost. During his adventures he learned an important lesson that he shouldn’t have left his house without mummy. So the world youngest author und her book are so adorable and I am glad that I have read the article about her.

I am in an unpleasant situation now, but I try not to ruminate on my problems. Instead I try concentrate on positive things in my life. When I run into something that reminds me of this situation, I try to think about the fact that my life is much more than this situation. Yes, the situation is certainly unpleasant, but it is only a small part of my life. It doesn’t define me and my life, because my life consists of my loved ones, my two close friends, who remained my close friends despite difficulties und problems I have been facing for several years. My life consists of nature walks and summer days which I eventually started enjoy again. My life consists of my foreign languages and learning. There are so many interesting things which I want to know. There are so many wonderful people in my life. Maybe there are not so many people, but they are wonderful anyway and I don’t need a lot of people in my life. I just need a few, who are trustworthy and wonderful human beings. So there are so many wonderful people and things in my life and I will not allow this situation to become a big part of my life and destroy it. My life is beautiful and nothing will force me to doubt about this fact.

What I am going to do today? I am going to dedicate the whole day to language learning. I am going to start my learning by writing a short entry in English. Then I am going to read a magazine in German. By the time I will have finished reading the magazine in German, I am going to search for an article in German that will be interesting for me in order to translate it. I am going to translate a short extract of the article from Russian into German and then I will publish it on the website in order to get it corrected. When I will have finished translating a short extract, I am going to read a book in English. I might read 10 or 20 pages. 10 pages will be the minimum that I am going to read. I haven’t written about taking a break during the day, but of course I am going to take a break. I might go for a walk after reading the book in English. Finally, in the evening I am going to learn and practice my Italian. Between the hours of 8 pm and 9 pm I will be working on my Italian. When I will have finished practicing Italian, I might watch a few videos in English and German before going to sleep. So that’s. This is how my day going to look like.

Even though I am stuck in a pretty difficult situation, I try to not get depressed. In order to prevent depression, I decided that it would be great medicine for me to be busy every day. So I have recently started learning my third foreign language: Italian and I am still learning German and English. I learn all three languages on my own, but self-learning is not so difficult for me, because I have already a certain experience in language learning. I have been learning English and German for several years and I have been learning my languages on my own for a pretty long time. However, since I started to learn three foreign languages, it became pretty difficult for me to balance them and devote enough time to each language on a regular basis, even though I am lucky to have a lot of free time now. Some of languages don’t get enough attention, but it doesn’t upset me, because even doing something for 15 minutes or for a half hour counts for learning and improving a language. I am really happy, even in not such a good situation, that I have started learning the third language, because it brings a lot of positive emotions in my life which I desperately need at the moment.

I need to refresh my grammar knowledge. Several days ago I watched a video, in which Future tenses were explained in a very good way. I have just reviewed my notes which I made during I was watching the video and I want to write a few sentences in order to practice Future tenses. I’m going to write a few sentences in order to practice the Future tense. My friend called me yesterday and we have arranged to go to the cinema today. So, we are going to the cinema today. I am walking and I see an old woman walking before me. She didn’t noticed how her wallet fell out of her pocket. I will help her and give the wallet back to her. I have a headache, but I have taken a medicine and I hope that my headache will go away soon. This evening I will be watching videos on YouTube for an hour. By the time when I need to go sleep, I will have finished watching videos on YouTube. I started learning Italian some weeks ago. Friday next week I will have been learning Italian for a month. I need to go to the bus station. The bus arrives at 10. When I will finish writing this entry, I might make a short pause in order to relax for a few minutes because I have already learned a lot today.

Learning languages helps me a lot. Learning languages helps me a lot. I don’t know, what I would do without learning languages. I would go crazy without languages. Learning languages is my hobby and my passion. Regardless of going through difficult times, I feel stimulated and motivated, because I have a goal and a dream to master my target languages. I wake up every morning thinking about practicing my target languages. It makes me feel excited. Practicing and learning my languages helps me to take my mind off my worries and negative thoughts. I feel much better while I practice and learn my target languages. When I accomplish things, which I was going to do during the day, I feel satisfied with myself at the end of the day. It makes me feel that I am moving forward and I am not stuck. Of course, I am doing my best to improve my languages, but I have also another issues. As to these issues, to be honest, I am not moving forward, because I am not working enough on myself. I understand it and it makes me feel sad. I should begin to deal with these issues. It shouldn’t be big steps. I can start small. It doesn’t matter, how many steps you make, the most important thing is that you still move forward.

It is morning now and I should write a little bit in English. It is morning now and I should write a little bit in English. I want to write every day. Hopefully I will improve my English. I have time only to practice my writing and listening skills, but if I do it on a regular basis, hopefully I will improve these skills. This is the third day, since I decided to write regularly in English. Hopefully I will stick to this activity. I usually write about language learning. Unfortunately I struggle to write about a wide variety of topics, because I am lacking words. It means that I should read in English and listen to English a lot in order to increase my vocabulary. I am reading now more in German, because I am focusing now on practicing my German. I try to practice all four skills: reading, listening , speaking and writings skills in German every day, thatswhy I don’t have enough time to work on these four skills in English, but it doesn’t matter, how much I do, the most important thing is that I still practice my English. Today I am going to write an entry in English and I am doing it now. I also want to listen to English and maybe read an article or a passage from a book. That’s it.