One good thing about training at the gym is that I can listen to audio.
I used to run with earphones, but I could only listen to music.
I did not have the energy to study languages while running.

At the gym, there are machines where I can place my phone.
There is Wi‑Fi, so I can also watch videos while training.
After trying many things, I feel that podcasts work best for me.
Radio programs might also be good.

I finished reading “How I Mastered Five Languages in One Year” by Takaya Seino.

I often feel that our thinking is shaped by the language we use.
Because of this, I believed that learning many languages could help me change myself.
But learning several languages at the same time sounded very difficult.

Still, this book made me think, “It is hard, but I want to try.”
If I could follow the method in the book, maybe I could learn many languages too.
The problem is that following the method exactly is not easy.

The first language I want to work on is English.
I have studied English for a long time, but it has not become a part of me.
One reason is that I did not learn junior‑high English well.

I probably listened to English classes without much focus.
So grammar terms do not stay in my mind.
I know the names—“the five sentence patterns,” “infinitives,” “relative pronouns”—
but they do not connect to a real feeling in my body.
I could get points on tests, but that was different from understanding.

After I became a Japanese teacher and started teaching classical Chinese,
I began to understand English word order a little better.
The way I build the structure of a sentence in classical Chinese
is similar to how English word order works.

Chinese feels a little familiar to me because I studied it a bit.
The grammar is simple, so it seems easier to learn.
But the pronunciation is difficult.

I also want to learn French.
The sound of the language is beautiful, and the words feel warm.
The “sound” reaches my heart before the meaning does.

Learning several languages is not only a skill.
It can also change the way I think.
When I imagine the person I might become after learning them, I feel excited.
The question is whether I can keep going until the end.