My project - Language and Travel I have been working on many kinds of projects till now and my daughter is the longest and challengest project that I am targeting. Because of "my daughter" one, I am motivated every day to do everything for a bright future. In addition to it, another project outside of the work and the family that I have just started for nearly five months makes me happy. I name it "Language and Travel". I challenge myself by studying more languages besides Vietnamese as primary and English as second used for survival and work. And I want to see the result of my working hard by applying them for traveling. Back in December 2017, I kicked off the project with the first module - Mandarin language. The reason I picked Mandarin first is that I love watching Chinese TV Series and listening Chinese music. By learning the language, watching dramas and listening music, I can understand Chinese culture to prepare for my trip to China. I researched a lot before pushing myself a strict routine with Mandarin. Finally, I decided to go with the approach that I think it is suitable for me. I bought courses from yoyochinese.com to self-study some fundamental of Chinese. More information about yoyochinese, it is a website containing Mandarin grammar courses taught in plain English by the beautiful YangYang teacher. I completed the beginner level after three months while YangYang estimates six months for the completion. After beginner, I continue with Intermediate and YoYo300 Chinese Characters. However, I figured out that I have learned so fast and understood a lot but it is hard for me to listen to people and start a conversation. So, I did trial many one-one online speaking classes and finally, I chose italki.com because of the competitive price and convenience. I have been with italki.com twice a week for 2 months and I can see significant improvement recently. Now, I just do once a week one-one online speaking lessons, Intermediate grammar, and Chinese Characters and plan to achieve comfortable communication level by end of November which is one year Mandarin learning journey. I plan to release my first module with a two week trip to China in summer 2020. I know it is a long-term planning because I planned vacation trips for 2018 and 2019 already. Following with Mandarin, I will soon start by order my list including Korean, Japanese and Spanish. And I think you know where are my next trips after 2020, right? Thanks for review and correction. Trang