Language Learning

Only managing to scrape by with 30 mins of Japanese a day and 1 Duolingo lesson of Spanish a day. No Irish. Still sorta depressed I think. I think to regrow my efforts I want to just focus in on my Japanese until that's doing an hour, then grow my other language muscles again. Still amazed how I just completely fucked up after missing a day or 2 to that heatwave. Absolutely insane.

Also want to reply to some folk here on this thread at times, but can only see them if I go directly to this current Language Learning website/page (sopuli.xyz). Can't see most posts from this instance. I know Ashtear pops on here every so often, but can't comment to people if I can't see them on my own feed. Reoccurring issue for me.

Also if anyone has any tips on getting back on the horse. I'd be appreciative.

Made my way through learning to write 75% of the Joyo Kanji via Rembering the Kanji and Kohii. Love the way this satisfies the number-go-up instinct in my brain, even if going through doing isolated kanji study isn't the most valuable thing.

I've also just generally been kinda absorbed in Anki this weekend. Had a few days where I couldn't really watch/listen to anything, but I could kill time on my phone w/ flashcards. Caught up on my Core 2k/6k deck (I'm about 1100 cards deep into that).

Also messed around with importing media decks from Jiten and messing with those. It's like a buffet tho, where my interest is higher than my capacity. Looked at these decks, but ultimately realize I should be focusing more on my core deck if anything, to get all these common words out of the way. The media decks are more compelling when they can be less than 1000 cards for high coverage, but for a season of anime or something, I'm still looking at about 2k card decks for 95% coverage.

It's been a serious few weeks. I haven't posted for a bit on the weekly updates, so there could be a lot to cover.

My German class (B1.2) is going well. I'm really starting to understand more of the German language structure and patterns. I'm finally starting to get Nominative/Accusative/Dative and how adjective endings become what they based on article changes.

Past tense is still very rough, especially in sentences with multiple clauses. There was also a whirlwind of logical operators that I need to practice for a few solid weeks.

I'm still churning through Angelika Bohn's German language books. I'm on a B1/B2 that's just pushing my vocabulary a touch more than I wanted.

My ability to listen to spoken language is getting better, but I still get hung up translating in my head and miss the rest of the sentence. Holding it all in there while the person is still speaking is rough.

I've been doing much better in shops and stores with both conversation speaking & listening, as well as vocab on items & checkout systems.

I can do this. I have to. In 11 months I need my B1 test certificate in hand for my early residency application. That'll be an awesome day!