How's your language learning going this week? - Weekly thread (Jun 14)
3d 2h ago by lemmy.world/u/emb in languagelearning@sopuli.xyz
Sorry for the late post, was off on vacation for a bit.
Have you all kept learning this week?
Pumping through Anki cards this week. But probably over-doing that, need to actually be reading and listening more.
I know that feeling. If I could change one thing about my journey, it would have been listening more.
Watching the World Cup on Telemundo. Can follow most of what's going on with every now and then looking up words and phrases. Definitely one of the more fun ways to learn Spanish.
Also, I found a decent app that translates words and keeps all the history of the words I look up, so creating a good list of words to practice.
Anki was rough today. Didn't sleep much last night, missed yesterday's reviews... It's amazing how much that affects recall. It's like I know where the vocabulary is in my head but when I run towards it I slam into a brick wall. Frustrating.
Somebody told me the most important thing when learning a new language is your health. Get enough sleep, eat well, exercise often. I really feel that.
On the other side of surgery recovery (tonsillectomy recovery is no joke, holy shit). Managed to do Anki with no new cards for the past couple weeks, so it's nice to not come back to a pile of reviews.
Feeling a bit fuzzy on listening coming back to it, but otherwise doing okay. Back to the grind!
Signed up for German at my local community college. It's a non-credit German Discussion course. I'm hoping this will help solidify my skills to something that can be lined up to an actual German class level.
It really seems like Community College is one of the best opportunities for learning language. Check your local community college for summer semester (or fall semester if you wanna plan ahead a bit).
Actual self study has very much slowed down. It's harder to be motivated now that I have no trips planned. I joke with my friends that I need to spend money on a German vacation to motivate myself again lol.
I still do Anki each day but my Grammatik aktiv work has slowed considerably.
I will say that I've upgraded my level of effort on Anki cards. I now consider myself at the level where all verbs must be checked with infinitive, 3rd person present, 3rd person past, and 3rd person past perfect (lassen, lässt, ließ, hat gelassen). That has increased my error rate dramatically and wore me out a bit. But I don't think that I've worked as hard as before yet, even if I'm still studying each day.
My overall focus is to get my speaking up even if I'm going to be stuck at A2 a while longer. I know my speaking is lagging behind and I'm willing to put effort and focus on this problem rather than continuing to my B1 stuff.
I do have enough understanding that I'm beginning to enjoy German VTubers. But it's not a complete understanding of what they say yet... More like I get the overall gist and only with ample hints (exaggerated cartoon faces, meme images and other such context clues). I'm unable to just understand the native level German on its own / isolated.