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How's your language learning going this week? - Weekly thread (lemmy.world)
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[–] arxaseus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Something happened to me last Friday and have only been doing 30 mins of Japanese since then (still not enough to progress).

In somewhat of a depressive slump right now. Trying to muster any energy to study is incredibly difficult. I'm amazed I managed to even do 30 minutes of Japanese a day since. But yeah, just really gutted, no energy, and in a degree of emotional pain.

Talking with other language learners does enable me to feel somewhat connected to my habits still though, so at least there's that.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So sorry to hear it. Not much meaningful support I can give, but know that people care and want to see you succeed.

Take care of your health first. If studies help take your mind off things or put you into a good place mentally, then great. But if you need to take time and process some stuff, breaks are OK too.

[–] arxaseus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I feel that, studying is something I pride myself on, which is why I rather not skip a single day, but yeah, I'm only human, and not everything can or has to be perfect. I actually learnt that, in a language learning sense, from a Japanese learner on YouTube, when he admitted to missing a day on one of his live feeds, then said he forged the dates on Anki to make it seem like he didn't miss any. I get it. People on social media want perfection, I just felt sorry he had to lie about something so simple, so I'm not really one for trying to egg someone who misses a day or two out of hundreds. Life happens.

Again, talking to fellow learners, even if I'm not as active, does help ease the pain by a fair amount. Just really want to indulge in the languages no matter what facet I can come across, so I'll take what I can get.

I should have really slept hours ago, but need to stay awake longer still, so I'll probably try do it now after this message, I really gotta do a lot more so even just the 30 minutes should at least tide my senses over for a while.

Also cheers.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

Self-care's the foundation of any effective learning. Good sleep, hygiene, relaxation. Sometimes your body just takes the time for you in these situations.

You're doing the thing, try to give yourself a little grace in a tough time.

[–] lalah@sakurajima.moe 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@emb I want to read more. anyone have any recommendations for good physical books for someone who is still a beginner at reading Japanese?

are the "Learn Japanese Through Haiku" books any good?

no manga or VNs please

#JapaneseLanguage #LanguageLearning

[–] emb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Haven't tried the Learn Through Haiku, so I can't comment on that one.

How beginner are we going? I like the graded readers from Ask. At first I thought it wouldn't be worth getting printed ones, but they're pretty nice quality. And around level 3 (as far as I've tried) you get substantial little short stories in there - around 30 pages per book, and they come in bundles of 5.

I've tried some of the Japanese Language Park's 'Short Stories for Japanese Learners' stuff, and actually it's pretty good too. They have vocabulary lists, q&a, and a full English translation after each story. Personally, I'd rather just have the vocab list and not use so many pages for the other stuff, but it's preference. I also have a "Japanese Short Stories for Beginners" from Lingo Mastery, which I'm not a big fan of. Typsetting and editing seem sloppy, but it does the job of providing short stories.

More advanced, the Tsubasa Bunko stuff seems like a good route. I picked up a Tsubasa Bunko copy of 時をかける少女 (Girl Who Leapt Through Time) and it seems really nice. Full furigana, a picture every handful of pages. But it's a lot, reading an actual novel (even youth-targeted) for me, for now, just involves too many word lookups.

For broader options, try browing Natively maybe.

[–] MastKalandar@feddit.online 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

这 是 粥。这 是 豆腐。l learnt these two sentences @praveen@social.masto.host

[–] praveen@social.masto.host 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@MastKalandar @emb 加油 ! 作天我们吃了粥 (we ate porridge yesterday).

[–] MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can you please write the pinyin also ??

[–] praveen@social.masto.host 1 points 1 month ago

@MastKalandar 加油 (jiā yóu) - keep it up - cheering you.

You can find these in https://context.reverso.net/ as well, which gives both hanzi and pinyin.

zuó tiān - yesterday - 昨天
wǒ men - we - 我们
chī le - ate - 吃了
zhōu - porridge - 粥

[–] MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago

@praveen@social.masto.host 今天， 我 用 中文 给 我 弟弟 写 信，我 正 在 学习 中文。他 立 即用 中文 回 复 我 很好，继续加油！他不懂中文

[–] MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

嗨，我 是 印度人。你 呢 ??

@praveen@social.masto.host

[–] MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

你 说不说 中文 ??? @wongkakui@piefed.ca

[–] WongKaKui@piefed.ca 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

你不是说你是印度来的吗？

你意思是想向我学中文？？？

Lmfao, pls find someone else. I only went to 2nd grade in China before my family emigrated. My English is better than Chinese

Also the "你 说不说 中文" kinda feels like google translate, the phrase sounds so weird ngl...

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@praveen@social.masto.host can you please translate those two sentences ??

They are very complex.

[–] praveen@social.masto.host 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was the first sentence. The second one ??

[–] praveen@social.masto.host 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@MastKalandar You can use context.reverso.net to translate. Just copy and paste.

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do it on my mobile. So copying is a problem as l need to tap on the screen, and it becomes a troublesome experience.

Do you have any copy paste apk based on open source ??🤔🤔🤔

[–] praveen@social.masto.host 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@MastKalandar You can also use strokeorder.com to draw each charecter as you see on the screen. It is more effort, but your goal is to learn and it'll take some effort.

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 0 points 1 month ago

你 意思 是 想向 我 学 中文 ?

What does that even mean ???🤔🤔

[–] praveen@social.masto.host 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@MastKalandar @emb 我也是印度人。 晚安。 明天见。

[–] MastKalandar@feddit.online 1 points 1 month ago

Wo ye shi yin du ren. Couldn't read after that 😄😄😄😄😄

[–] MastKalandar@piefed.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Just went through a few words repetitively.