Continued Esperanto . . . after Spanish

I'm working on this million word challenge for Spanish for now.  I fully admit I might get off the pace and not be able to get there by the end of the year.  But no worries, because I'm going to continue on with Spanish into the new year, and, really, the plan is to always maintain Spanish.

To make more time for Spanish, I am only going to maintain my Anki decks in Esperanto, but not do any additional reading or sentence-adding.  However, at some point next year, I plan to put in some work on Esperanto.  I found a great youtube channel, Evildea.  It has videos in Esperanto with English subtitles.  I can watch those videos for good comprehensible input and record the sound and listen to whilst going on walks, etc.  Also, in response to something I wrote on a youtube channel, someone wrote me back about this course they had put together.  I will look at it when I am dusting back off the language.

Knocking off "fluent reading in Esperanto" as a goal is at this point a matter of dozens of hours, not hundreds.

A Million Words Before 2017?

My free time was pretty consumed for a while getting my "investment" house sold off.  (Now I feel a lot better for when the financial system has it's next crisis -- one that I bet shows 2008 was just a warm up act).

Oh well, only so much time can be dedicated to "prepping," and I'm already at nearing the top end of what I want to do with it for now.  My time instead channeled into foreign languages.  I started hitting the Esperanto pretty hard on the 'ol Anki deck, and I saw a chart on the correlatives that blew my mind and help me get my understanding to the next level.  

I also pulled down some books in Spanish to start the ball rolling again on my 1,000,000 word goal.  And as is often the case, just starting was all it took to lead to a productivity explosion.  I just feel in love with what I was reading and that enthusiasm transferred to all of Spanish.  I really have come a long way over all of these years of working on Spanish off and on (the worst way to learn a language).  There are a lot of texts where I can figure out my missing words by reading around them and using context. . . and learning the vocabulary under those circumstances is just a joy.  

I did some calculations and if I read a little over 8,300 words a day, I can hit my million word goal in Spanish by the end of the year.  And sure, I will be able to cross a goal off my list, but more importantly, I know I'll be much better at something I love by taking this challenge.  If I do hit the reading goal by Jan 1st, I still will devote the next year to Spanish, taking on composition and conversation, and reading old books in Spanish -- I am a sucker for the classics.  

While I have really enjoyed using New Years as a way to kick off a new skill, I don't think I will this year.  It'll be more work on Spanish.  I've reached a point of proficiency that I have basically fallen in love with it.

Update:  Nope.  I'm not going to get there by the beginning of 2017.