The week was exhausting… Because I tried my hardest to use my target language and it takes a lot of effort. But the week has been full of positive encounters and it went ok!
You all have had a good langlearning week, I hope?
Something I notice is that when I see a text in a language I’m not comfortable with, I need a conscious effort to not skip it and try to translate and/or interpret. Now, wherever there is microblogging, I get the impression Japanese people just love to make small posts, and going by my subs/followed feed this past week, I noticed I was starting to slow down on the posts of the Japanese folks I follow, unconsiously trying to read what’s written.
Also though technically not studying it, some Italian posts appear in my feed every now and then, and also been noticing I’ve been getting more and more comfortable with the language, even being able to interpret a good chunk of the texts. To a smaller extent the same happens to French.
Big win yesterday: I have now gone through every card in my N3 vocab deck (about 3500 cards). Exciting. Feels a bit intimidating stepping into stuff labeled specifically as N2 content, but my retention rate as been great. I’m ready. It’s the clearest sign yet that I’m more advanced with Japanese than I ever have been. Wrapping up the latest chapter of Tobira either today or tomorrow, too. Four more chapters to go.
@Lazycog I’m reading the Cure Dolly transcript.
Practiced my italian and spanish a little over the last few weeks and now I’m back trying to learn korean.
Bad news hit me lately so just been sorta struggling to maintain streaks, let alone study.
This thread’s always a motivator, so might end up doing a bit more after I close out of this.
Just, yeah, life, I guess.I’m so sorry to hear that. Happy that you find strength in these threads though.
Hope you were able to find some time and joy in learning, but it’s also ok to slow it down sometimes. We’ll be here for you!
