This Week on Rae’s Tea
I’ve booked 4 plane tickets, and I’ll be embarking on a 4 month nomadic journey.
Added Korean, Japanese and Spanish back onto the roster.
New Polyglot’s Talk Episode about using music to study languages (much more unique than I anticipated, lots of great tips in there)
Waagwaan Frennies 🌍✨
Discipline and commitment often feels impossible. We set goals for ourselves and see ourselves cave, over and over again. It can be so hard to want to try again, and so hard to trust yourself. You start to believe that you are not good enough, that you are lazy naturally, that you are not meant for this life, naturally.
It’s not true— and you must try again.
My life is at one of those crossroads again where things will be changing drastically and will be unpredictable in a great way. It has been hard for me to keep up with all my hobbies, jobs and commitments, and with this new chapter coming up, it will be even more difficult, so I’ve been spending the last month really opening up and searching my heart to find out what my blocks are towards discipline and consistency.
I’ve been making content since high school, and in all these years, I have never truly been able to find a routine that fits me. At some point, you ask yourself, ‘maybe this just isn’t your thing? maybe you should give up?’. And it’s tempting… when I got my first corporate job, I really felt that maybe I should do things a more traditional route and do something that I know will pay off immediately.
Gag. And just like that my block came out in the open. I feel safer in a job because I know my efforts will be rewarded. Somewhere deep down, I just don’t feel that my content, studies, or anything I do is of any consequence to anyone but me. I let other people’s imagination of a good life steal away the energy I would have towards *what I actually want* in my own life.
This morning I woke up, and I said to myself:
I deserve to be the creator I know I am.
and that goes for whatever you wish to be:
You are the polyglot you know you are.
You are the artist that you know you are.
You are the researcher that you know you are.
You deserve to be them. The fire is inside you, and your credentials are in your spirit, drive and love for those things — not in the material gain that particular accomplishments bring.
Interested in breaking out of the matrix and your limiting beliefs to live a colourful and multicultural life you’ve always dreamed of?
I’d love to guide you through your shadows and into your ✨happiness era!✨
Language Update: Back to the Grind!
I’ve been allowing myself to study more freely as an extension of my creativity for some time now. Languages have been my predictable solace, a space where I can feel productive, like I’m improving and also find joy in the practice. Everything else in my life felt so dull, and so I needed language to be open ended.
Now that I’m shifting my priorities a bit, and that I know I’ll be visiting my TL countries soon (Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Spain), I want to start being a bit more methodological in the way I study them. Mandarin is still my main focus, but I’m now going to make sure I get in a bit more of my other languages in.
Here are my goals for the rest of 2023:
🌍 Daily Anki for Mandarin, Japanese & Korean
🌍 One (random) video lesson a week for Italian
🌍 1x video/song a week in Korean, Japanese, Spanish & Mandarin
🌍 3 hours of Mandarin per week (Tutors + Study Sessions)
What are yours?
If you want to join a super passionate language community where we share our goals and reflections together, consider checking out “The Polyglot Besties Club”! I’ve made lifelong friends through this group. We have two calls a week on Wednesdays and Sundays.