On the other hand, in writing it's up to you how legible you want to make it (and the capacity of the medium). Get a thick bright pen and write in big capital letters (all-caps, so to say)... Maybe I should, too. I've tried two types of pen, and they both have been a measurable counter-argument to the whole business. Or maybe it's the notebooks, who knows. I don't want to also have to buy expensive pens, I go through them pretty fast.

In other news, I began studying Dutch about a year ago, a few months before Polish, and still can barely understand any speech apart from educational videos (comparing to Polish, in which I often find myself feeling almost like a native speaker... or at least listener). To be honest, I kind of gave up, but suddenly Youtube suggested a video from a show which, if I'm not horribly deceived, is similar to John Oliver, but instead of encompassing the whole world, manages to derive most of its material from the tiny Netherlands. Maybe there is still hope.

Oh, I also wanted to say, that all things considered, any foreign language is by far not the hardest thing I've tried to learn in my life. I mean, I've had some trouble with game development lately, and was pretty hopeless yesterday. The lows in foreign languages are nothing compared to game development and programming.

I don't know if that motivates you. I was just struck with a realization, that at least from my perspective, if there's something that takes genius-level intelligence and memory, foreign languages are not it. They're almost entirely a skill that you master sooner or later through repetition.