Well as you all know I have been learning Tongan. Here are a few of my recent observations.

I had a dream in Tongan, sort of. I wasn't speaking Tongan but my aunt Lisa was, fast too. I understood all that I was paying attention to, but mostly I was trying to get in a word edgewise to ask when she learned Tongan! To the best of my knowledge my aunt doesn't speak Tongan so this was shocking. She was speaking constantly though. I have to wonder if there was people outside my house having a conversation or something. ha ha

I speak Tongan everyday and with some people it is the only language I ever speak to them. I called one of my friends and someone answered the phone in English. We talked for a minute and I needed to know so I asked who it was (answering someone elses phone) Nope same person I just didn't recognize the voice in English. That is when I realized that we had only ever spoken Tongan. Impressive since I have had real conversations, not just hi how are you stuff.

I have noticed more than once recently that I picked up meanings of new words from context clues only. I still don't know the proper translation, but I got through those conversations just fine.

I took down my old word lists from my wall. I still look at them for reference relatively often, but I thought they were becoming a crutch so I trashed them (and started new ones of course). Liberating.

So this must be me noticing progress. It comes in waves of course but it is nice to be on a high point.