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I tried the audio .mp3 files from my "Grammatik aktiv" book. And... I'm really not good at this. More weaknesses identified, more drilling needed. Etc. etc. Its seemingly the eternal struggle of language, practice something. Try something new, realize I'm bad at this new thing, practice some more.
Doing Grammatik aktiv once-per-day seems like a slog as it is, realizing that I've missed out on all the audio practice though... I've got 27 chapters here of audio I need to catch up on and actually do. Uggghhhh. Maybe I'll do 1 Grammatik aktiv per day still, but try to catch up with 2+ sections worth of audio (or more?) per day until I'm sync'd up.
Anki cards still tough as ever, despite being at only 80% FSRS retention and 10 cards/day (+5 words/day). In practice, I know I'm learning more words/day due to all my grammar practice + other sources of review. (Music song study, reading, etc. etc.). I'm back up to 10-seconds/card, which seems to be my natural / long-term pace at Anki. At least for "random-ish" words coming out of the 4000-word frequency list that my main Anki deck is part of.
All in all: I still know what I'm bad at, what I need to practice, and how to improve.
I am thinking of maybe writing up a "6 month review" of my language learning experience. I've attempted to write something for the last 3 weeks actually, but I've deleted my writing each time due to writers block. I'm not quite sure how to describe the whole experience or what perspective I should write about. I'm still a relative beginner in the great scheme of language, but that makes my experience valuable to other beginners who are feeling the slog for the first time.