Motivation

There's actually not much point to my learning Japanese except that it interests me, and I'm increasingly finding myself making excuses not to bother studying it—that is, it isn't interesting me—so I might move on to some other language this year.  Before I do that I'd like to get to some definite level of competence in Japanese, but if I don't then I suppose I'll just abandon it for a year or two and maybe come back later.

I'd like to get somewhere with the language within the next few months (in the next five weeks it'll be nice to have something to distract me from the UK General Election campaign: burying myself in the books should stop me getting irritated with the Internet), but whether I do or don't, I'll probably try something else afterwards.  I've been half-heartedly mucking around with this for too long now.