I'm Bad About It! GAH!

For someone who works with children everyday to help them acquire basic language skills you think that I would be able to apply some of that knowledge to myself.


Uh.... no.  False.  Fictional.  Untrue.


I swear I mean to take the time to sit down with my Japanese Kana flash cards, or my workbooks... or I mean to check out JapanesePod101 but I manage to find myself distracted by other things... other things that are not as important to me as learning Japanese!  lol.


Sure, I have some rote vocabulary and phrases memorized.  However, whether or not I can understand them when said to me by a native Japanese speaker is questionable (as I noted in my JET interview when I couldn't understand the speaker ask me some basic questions).   I'm starting to understand why the toddlers I work with throw fits when they don't understand something or can't be understood... it's frustrating!


But, dagnabit, I decided today that I refuse to let my insecurities about language learning interfere with something I really want.  I know that it will be difficult, but the payoff will be worth it.  And I can only feel proud of myself in the end.


I will learn Japanese if it kills me!  I realize that I'm not a super-motivated person by myself, but I also don't think I can financially swing private tutoring, so I'm going to buckle down and do it!


Wish me luck!  ^_^