Language Learning

I got stuck in Grammatik aktiv A1-B1. I reached the B1 levels and it's not really explaining these concepts well

Soooooooo.... I've decided now is the time to pull out my B1 Kursbuch and actually begin working through B1. It's much harder level of listening and I'm very slow with these exercises. I'm hoping that my brain gets used to this increased difficulty and that I'll progress to a faster pace.

But day 1 is ROUGH. It's like I'm rather stupid again and need to look up a ton of words all the time to make any progress

I did look at Pokemon Weiße Edition again and my brain is much much better today. I'm able to read, albeit with a TON of lookups. But I can actually make a lot of the way through without lookups and guessing the meaning of the words. (Am I correct? Probably not. But it's kinda fun going through this with kinda crappy understanding lol). Maybe that will be a fun little reward when things get tough at this level.

Going excellently. I was told a trick in how to manage my timing when it came to studying. Instead of setting up a 10 minute or 30 minute timer. You get a song or a podcast or a video on in the background, and use that as your timer. So I ended up finding a 7 or 9 minute long song and then just studying with that on repeat. I'm managing like 40-60 minute study sessions for my Japanese, and have finally worked through most of the workload.

Spanish is still just maining a streak, but I want to just fully push my Japanese first before branching off into my Spanish more.

Lojban is going great too. Managed to complete all of Lojban.io in about 5ish days, and now I'm reading the Complete Lojban Language book, going by a chapter a day. I've only complete 2 chapters so far. But with some background knowledge from the past and such, I'm finding it relatively easy to start writing sentences in it already.

Doing maths still, and my reading (of other books) isn't as intense. But I'm at least gaining more steam again.

I had my German B1.2 course exam. I haven't been a student for 15 years, and I'd forgotten how nervous an exam can make me.

Did I pass? I don't know yet. Maybe? Being in B1.2 was a stretch to begin with, as I tested to B1.1, but it wasn't offered by my program this term. I either went with A2.2 (boring) or B1.2 (stretching). I went big and it helped a ton, but I don't think I really reached a proficiency level that I'd consider B1.2 ready.

My general speaking and listening to German is quickly improving. If people don't speak at a million kph I can usually get most of it.

My reading and more complex grammatical structures are improving quickly.

I need to finish reading some B1/B2 books and keep speaking in public. I can feel my skills building, so that's a nice arc to be on.

People are always telling me to watch my language so I’m not learning anymore!