no va bien
Por que?
I didn’t do much this week. I plan to do more next week.
I’ve almost made it to a one month long streak. It feels good my retention rate has leveled out after having restarted. Still a long way to go but currently I’ve learned ~35% of n5 kanji, and ~20% of n5 vocab. Yay progress!
I’ve not adopted it consistently, but Wagotabi looks to be a fun tool to learn/study, too.
I was just playing Chants of Sennaar (a game about deciphering made-up language) and wondering why the same type of game isn’t out there for real languages.
And of course the obvious answer is that it is, I just don’t know. Wagotabi looks neat. I’m still dipping my toes in with playing other games with language set to Japanese, but W seems like it might be a fun bridge.
Not related other than learning resource - but I’ll also mention on the off chance it’s useful to anyone, I like these resources for practicing kana:
- https://gohoneko.neocities.org/learn/kana
- it’s like most other “type what you see” quizzes, but I like that it has a good selection of fonts that normalize different strokes/styles.
- https://studykana.com/practice-reading
- just a typing test. Gives you an excuse/motivation to try to go fast. I wish it had more words, or a way to upload a word dictionary, etc.
Each are useful in their own right, but I was kind of contemplating making an opensource repo that has similar (but hopefully refined) capabilities, maybe detecting when you commonly confuse two characters and then offer to give you a short drill of just those characters to reinforce.
Obviously less and less useful as time goes on and the hiragana are cemented in your memory, but it makes me sad to think someone might take them down one day and they’d just be lost.
- https://gohoneko.neocities.org/learn/kana
There’s a lot I like about Wagotabi. Not perfect by any means, but I think if offers a fair bit for reinforcement fairly naturally without just always beating you over the head with flash cards. And does offer a little listening practice too at times.
I’m realizing that I really need to do more listening and speech practice but I’m not taking any IRL lessons or anything
Completed Le Grand Cahier (took between 2-3 weeks this is the first native book I completed, :D. Recommend this book but it is NSFW type book not for kids. Everything in the book is written from kids point of view and in a matter-of-factly direct manner. The approach of the next book in the series seems to be different and didn’t grab my interest so skipping it for now.)
Completed a few graded books this week from hachette. They have free audio files on their site so I just loaded them into lingQ to generate the text for reading together with listening.
My next native book to read was supposed to be Petit Nicolas, started reading it early this week found it a little challenging. Later I came across this book La petite fille de monsieur Linh by Philippe Caludel which felt much easier to read so am going through that now.
One thing I started to notice is that books with longer sentences can be more of a challenge for me to read even though they are supposed to be easy books recommended by others for beginners. The long sentences makes me spend too much time deciphering the meaning that it takes the joy out of reading it. It is not always about the grammar or vocab that makes it difficult.
Other than that, I am also having similar problems like other posters here, don’t feel like making progress in the language as a whole. Mainly due to not practicing speaking, writing and not enough native listening. May need a teacher for that some day.
Bad. I’m trying to improve my speech understanding. Movies/news are too hard for me yet. But cartoons are mostly ok already. And there aren’t any interesting cartoons around. Maybe I’m a little picky but still…
There’s a big gulf where basic exercises seem too simple, and real, spoken language seems unbearably fast and difficult.
Good luck! I’m confident that it will improve over time if we keep engaging with the target language every day. But I don’t expect any results to be quick.
Try music. My brain seems to click better with words when they are sung. Once I learn the lyrics and what they mean, singing along helps me program them into my brain much better than reading or watching movies/TV.
I’ve been meeting my daily goal every single day, but I don’t feel any progress. Had to write a little simulation just to tell myself it’s coming lol
