Sailing
I found out yesterday that I have failed my sailing theory exam. I was not surprised, to be honest, given the amount of time I have spent learning the course material. I have only just entered the right frame of mind to do it, now that I have left the dark and lonely place I had occupied for the last six months.
Today I learned more about my exam results and in fact it is not all that bad. I must resit some parts of it next week, but my tutor helped me figure out where I was going wrong and hopefully it should not be a problem. For the record, I knew everything except the "rules of the road" (avoiding collisions) and how to calculate tidal stream speed and direction.
Japanese is also going quite well, despite the lack of time I have devoted to it since I started. I have put a lot of effort into learning hiragana and now I am confident at reading almost all of them. I get ba, pa and the like mixed up and also ra, chi and sa look similar. I try reading hiragana aloud and it reminds me of how it felt to learn to read English. I read in that flat, boring tone that children have when they read a word out without understanding it, then when I recognise the word I repeat it. I used to be very proud of my English reading ability and would always volunteer to read aloud to the class. Now I am back to square one again.
Today I learned more about my exam results and in fact it is not all that bad. I must resit some parts of it next week, but my tutor helped me figure out where I was going wrong and hopefully it should not be a problem. For the record, I knew everything except the "rules of the road" (avoiding collisions) and how to calculate tidal stream speed and direction.
Japanese is also going quite well, despite the lack of time I have devoted to it since I started. I have put a lot of effort into learning hiragana and now I am confident at reading almost all of them. I get ba, pa and the like mixed up and also ra, chi and sa look similar. I try reading hiragana aloud and it reminds me of how it felt to learn to read English. I read in that flat, boring tone that children have when they read a word out without understanding it, then when I recognise the word I repeat it. I used to be very proud of my English reading ability and would always volunteer to read aloud to the class. Now I am back to square one again.