I’m mentally preparing to complain to a pigeon feeder in my target language. Wish me luck.
(the pigeons are filling up my window sill with shit and have learned to wait for the feeder early in the morning, waking me up way before my actual alarm)
I’m mentally preparing to complain to a pigeon feeder in my target language. Wish me luck.
(the pigeons are filling up my window sill with shit and have learned to wait for the feeder early in the morning, waking me up way before my actual alarm)
Still working primarily on Japanese. But also found out I’ll have a Spanish-speaking travel opportunity early next year, so trying to work on that.
I’m in such a weird place with my Spanish. It feels like I’m on the cusp of really being able to use it, but then my vocab is weak and I’m terrible at listening, so like what have I even got lol? At least I can read. Picking back up with El Tunél, a novel I’ve been meaning to finish for a long time.
That’s exciting! Trips are awesome motivators for me to put time into a language.
The listening must be hard since it’s such a fast phased language, but I really like the attitude of Spanish speakers, think you’ll have a nice environment to practice there :)
Since I also struggle with vocab I just learned some keywords to use like “thing” and “don’t know the word” lol.
Travel really does help a lot. I’m not big on travel, I mostly like learning languages for the fun of it, less as a communication tool… but going to the place and having conversations with people who don’t speak English really triggers somethings in my brain like ‘hey, this is important!’ that makes the learning process click.
The speed is really tough. I know I’ve read before that Spanish and Japanese both have higher speed (eg, in this infographic), but then when I went to look it up Wikipedia says it may be an illusion, so idk lol. I know for sure that it seems overwhelmingly fast when native speakers talk to each other, and in TV shows etc. But if you’re talking to a person irl at least they’ll slow it down for ya.