Yo aprendo español pero encuentro idiomas muy dificil. Intento media hora o mas todos los días.
I’m currently just starting to do more with tenses and reflexive words and trying to get my head around it all!
I set a personal goal to stay slow and consistent with Mandarin in the beginning of the year, then life happened in January and I have not recovered and I have an enormous anki backlog 🫠.
But I’ve been slow and consistent with my Spanish comprehensible input. My goal over this week is to finally catch up on my mandarin anki backlog and then next week start again with mandarin comprehensible input
My backlog gets daunting too. I’ll get real motivated one week and add a bunch of cards, to then get busy another week and fall behind.
I just try to keep reminding myself the spaced-repetition system will work itself out.
Yupp, it can definitely get daunting. I just have to keep reminding myself to do it during small pockets of free time throughout the day. I let 750 mandarin vocab cards buildup.
I was thinking I will just bite the bullet and try to get it all done today instead of distributing it throughout the week. I’m pretty harsh on myself with vocab (if I don’t get the answer within 3-5 seconds I just mark it as again). So doing it all today will give me an accurate idea of what cards I need to review more. I will channel the energy for both of us!
Pretty well - I took the JLPT N4 yesterday. I know these tests aren’t super meaningful, since they’re all comprehension, no production; I just signed up for it as a form of perspnal motivation back in January.
Anyways, the Grammar/Vocab written parts went very well I think. The listening comprehension… Oof. I know what I’ll have to focus on more.
Ughhh, I got so busy with work that I really let things slide the past two weeks. Thankfully I just finished this project so it should be back to normal this week. Annoying.
On the listening front, I’ve decided to abandon podcasts for active, challenging learning. What happened was I went back to an intermediate video on Comprehensible Japanese and after the listening gains I’ve made the past month I realized how much less effort this was with the words here and there that I didn’t know. I realized partway through the video that it’s the children’s show approach–she’s showing the listener exactly what she’s talking about. For building up my audio automaticity, I’m just going to do this kind of video from now on. Of course, I need to find hours and hours of it…
I just wish I’d gone the video direction in the fall. I think I would have stuck with it better.
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.
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.
They say that B2 is roughly Youth Literature level, in that you should be reasonably comfortable with reading Momo or “Die Unendliche Geschichte”.
Also the books are apparently approachable even at A2 but you know, a lot more lookups needed. B1 is a weird slog for sure.
Thank you for the suggested reading. I’ll give them a look.
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.
People are always telling me to watch my language so I’m not learning anymore!
thanks for showing me this com however I’m deeply disappointed there’s no learn french com :(
Yeah, it is kinda sad. But Lemmy is small, so we get what we get.
Searching for communities for French, I see 2 or 3 that look OK (but pretty quiet). Then the more frustrating part is there’s not a clear standout to try and breathe life into.
Higher level comms like this one offer a place at least. Learning languages share a good bit in common, even with totally different targets.
Like another comment mentioned, questions or topics that are specific to learning French are welcome here!
The communities for specific languages are all more or less dead at the moment. If you have questions about French I’m sure nobody minds if you ask them in this community.
We just need to find a way to make this about America and I bet we can get these comms overflowing with low quality shitposts
