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Biology 23. Italky.
I wonder if I abandon all my linguistic exercises, except this daily writing, and switch to something else that has nothing to do with English, how that will affect my learning? Obviously, I would spend enough time to stay on the same level, but would it improve my English? That’s a strange idea.
I thought about my Russian today, and it seemed to me quite silly that I completely avoid using this language. The exercise which I called “the hour of thinking” could be reframed into a sort of philosophical journal, and perhaps it’s a good idea to maintain it in Russian. I will not lose much if I invest an hour into that. I could buy a new notebook, call it “philosophical journal,” and fill the notebook with something meaningful at least a few days a week. If it turns out alright I would do it more frequently and eventually come up with writing every day there. After all, writing a page in Russian is not a big deal, and if I set a goal and focus on the process it’s gonna work. On the other hand, I’m afraid that all this may lead to a kind of mess in my head, but anyway, it’s worth a try. I’ll lose nothing and I always can quit. Another thing is that my Russian may become powerful and get rid of English, as it was in the beginning of this year. That’s not fanny. I have to find reconciliation somehow. If the language determines the way we think it’ll take me many years to develop my English to the sufficient degree and think deeply, as deep as I can think now just by using Russian. So…

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