Language Learning

Realizing despite the lack of work done in Irish, I'm able to understand bits here and there even so. Also realizing that I was never taught future tense in school, (I was a very early dropout of the education system and was never home-schooled). I'm managing to get a lot farther in my Irish studies due to the Molly lectures, I need to go back over a few of her videos for better reference, and still have yet to make that card generator for Anki, so that'll still take a while. Also to add, Anki have their own third party API for making/managing cards, but I've never really gone into APIs very much so that's like probably the second time going to really try to pick some package not made by Python themselves.

Next to that, Spanish, I'm completing, but being lazy on, still need to dive more into Migaku and flash cards. Duolingo completely restructured their Spanish recently, and suddenly expects me to know another 10+ words I've never seen before, like the word for a hake fish, I never even heard of a hake fish before, let alone in Spanish. Also they've seemingly replaced a lot of the example conversations with AI voice actors instead of retaining their regular voice actors, and it's just, idk, they might be saying the words correctly, but it sounds like I'm listening to someone choke on food throughout.

Then the Japanese, I've been slowly pushing through with my piles of reviews and they seemingly just keep getting bigger no matter how much I put away. Ended up spending a whole hour today on Japanese flashcards, and still have 120 cards left in my pile. Which is another thing. I've set the goal of putting 30 minutes a day onto each subject and I'm realizing that that's far from enough to get far in any language. Especially for my Japanese, which should more like be AT LEAST a full hour, bare minimum. I'm doing all this work and getting nowhere fast it seems.

This all being said, I am going to pace myself building up to the lofty goal of an hour per language each. I still have other, probably more important things to do during the day, besides my languages, and I'll probably be leaning on things more once I build up the nerves for it. Rather take it easy, get there very slowly instead of jumping in and immediately burning out.

Still doing the maths, reading, Blender, programming, daily self care, and chores. Again, not as much as I want to do, but I'm still sort of staggering as it is, so I want to be careful about overdoing anything.