In this thread? I can try to give it a shot ^^
Learning languages is really hard and takes a looooooot of time. Having real life friends that might be impressed by the results, or might be nervously tapping their feet waiting for you to get there, it’s hard to actually find people that would appreciate the ride together with you, so I thought, why not just try here on this forum, there’s a feedback loop of people being excited about languages - you excite people about languages - people excite you about languages, and it just keeps on accelerating and going faster and faster and faster ^^
Ironically enough: daily lives of people, because if I know a person is learning a new language, often times they also want to adjust their lifestyles to make use of the process that they use, so when a person says that they’ve gone rowing frfr in Hyrule (wink wink Shannon-8) or they’ve gotten a new tattoo instead of spending more time at a book-off in New York (wink wink nerdqueen666), it makes me interested in following their journeys more, because somehow if people that are into languages made those choices, it can somehow be related to their study process as well ^^
And I really like seeing people’s hobbies and getting into the things they are into too, that’s why I often trade letters with people on Slowly for example ^^
People getting excited about the same kinds of things I get excited about, recommendations of things, but I really, really like seeing people’s hobbies materialize, like DIY things, like the other day Jintor posted their zine from Breath of the Wild in my magazine thread and I was like “THATS SO COOL JINTOR AAAA” xddd
I sometimes say to myself that what makes me the most happy is seeing other people be happy, so, I don’t know, I tend to gravitate towards enthusiasm somehow?
I constantly am, it’s an ongoing process - my favorite factoid is the fact that Shannon wrote in the op that because of ADHD, the study log will fizzle out in 6 posts, and it’s 4 years and 2164 posts later and ehehehehe xdd
I feel like I’m on the same side of ADHD, so, you know, knowing that Shannon can go for this long also feels weirdly reassuring for me.
But recent highlight of a study log I found to be amazing is “The most basic study log” by hemuli - by absolutely no means is this the most basic study log, I feel there’s so much heart inserted inside of it that I can’t help but just go like, whoa xddd
Purposefully not calling people in this thread, don’t want to just farm likes, but yeah, study logs fun, would recommend ^^