• NachtCelt@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    It’s going quite well. I had to go to the German embassy to apply for my passport (I’m Irish, but I have a German passport. Unbeknownst to me, the German state considers me a German citizen, as I had a Kinderausweis when I was young). So, it was an interesting and easy experience. But I got quite nervous having to use German in an official context again.

  • Ashtear@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    Had a really cool moment last night. My milestone goal for my parsing drills this month was to grab a complex sentence from native material and to parse it perfectly. I was browsing Denfaminicogamer and selected one and nailed it. It had a double-nested relative clause and and a clause with three modifiers in it!

    This was a big “I’m ready for native content” moment. Just need to up my reading speed. And vocab acquisition/nuance will of course be lifelong.

    So yeah, I’m moving onto the new study plan next week, which will take me up to the JLPT exam in December. Or maybe I’ll get ambitious and start it this week!

  • azimir@lemmy.ml
    4·
    8 days ago

    I’ve started a real German course with in person classes. Hopefully it’ll help with smoothing out the conversational parts and basic grammar that I’ve never truly internalized.

    My reading keeps improving. The speaking, oh the speaking…

  • arxaseus is not here@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    8 days ago

    Not as hardcore this week. Still managing an hour in Japanese at least, just that I’ve skipped a few days on Irish. For some reason I’m just really knackered during the week, and would either wake up super late, and still be tired, or wake up regularly early and be even more dead tired. The last 2 days has seen a bit of a pickup though. Finally started doing more maths and programming recently too, not that those are languages, but the little bit more makes me feel a bit more productive at least.

    My Japanese days I end up with like 200 reviews to do each day, including 20-ish grammar reviews. So majority of time is on flashcards, next to that about 20ish mins on new grammar lessons.

    Spanish is about 15 mins Duolingo, 5-10 mins flashcards, and 10-40 mins of my Spanish book.

    Irish is about 15-40 mins Irish with Mollie, then 15 mins Rosetta Stone.

    This isn’t even including the videos which I sometimes watch, each at 30 mins a piece (or longer if I really get into the media). Dream in Spanish has a somewhat intermediate podcast, and I got really swept away listening to one of their podcasts about LGBT+ culture in Latin America. Japanese is cijapanese, so it’s about 15-20 minutes listening and 10-15 mins looking up new words. I have about 1500 known words in Japanese, but they still use a lot of N1 or misc words that I’ve encountered, even in somewhat basic videos. So, MaruMori is making sense in that they teach you all over the demographic instead of just learning N5 then N4 and so on. Still, no matter how much I learn, there’s still a lot more.

    Also calculated that if I zerg rush my studies, I’ll be finished with my N5 Japanese within a month, Finally. My Duolingo streak is how far I’ve studied Japanese in earnest the past while, so I’ve been at the Japanese grind for about 690 days. Spanish probably about a year, and Irish about 1-2 months. I really need to find the exact dates if I can, but that’s a whole can of worms I’d rather avoid.

    Sorry, wall of text, but that’s me for this week.