Looking back at my progress plan something that I mentioned that has actually really helped me with my progress in learning Nepali has been watching instructional and YouTube videos in my free time. It definitely helped with pronunciation and sentence structure.
In some ways, I think I have adapted the plan to include more activities that involve me speaking or practicing speaking, so more time vocally practicing and speaking with my tutor.
I also have found myself looking up the history of the language and Nepali cultural ties more and more after the background assignment. I realized that there are so many things that I was not sure or completely unaware and now every time I run into something that I'm not sure or have no idea about, I find myself deep diving into trying to trace it back throughout history, which in itself teaches more information.
Other than that, I think I have stayed along the path with the reading. I do want to transition into writing more. I personally feel that I am a little behind on the writing aspect, which I want to transition more into doing.
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I think Nepali writing is really complicated! So, I can empathize with you being behind on writing practice. Nepali writing has so much nuance to it. And formal Nepali words are really different than what we speak on a day to day basis. I think that is true for English too. However, the magnitude of difference between formal and informal Nepali is much bigger than the magnitude of difference between formal and informal English. YouTube videos are great! Specially, when it comes to learning pronounciation. For the words that are borrowed from English, do you notice how Nepalis pronounce it differently?
I found watching videos to be one of the best methods to help me learn Korean, especially since there are so many sounds in Korean that don't exist in English. I like your idea of looking up the history of the language and culture. I think I'm going to focus more on that going forward to help me have a better understanding of the grammar structure and different contexts for speaking in Korean.