I’ve gotten into to worse time-wasting habits on my phone, tending to mindlessly play chess or scroll Lemmy, etc etc during small downtimes. Need to snap out of that and stop letting Anki cards pile up.
Also started to drift a little into looking for resources too much. Love a good educational resource, but sometimes I find myself seeking those out insteading of using the ones I have. A handful is plenty.
On the upside, I finished my first novella in Spanish. (Not counting that short story collection I read a couple years ago.) Reading a paper book written by a native speaker, aimed at native adults, feels like a pretty good benchmark of progress. Did I understand it all? Not even close. Did I read fast? Nope. But I read through, followed along, finished, and enjoyed it.
Yeah, I think there’s some stress about getting holiday stuff done, some about wrapping up work projects, some because I’d just gotten into a bad sleep schedule or got lazy in the cold… but as always, it’s time to move past the reasons and excuses to make more progress. 😄
I need to share back more, will try to keep an eye out for things that might make good posts. I do miss that about the old place, used to see more resources and advice just randomly go across. It can be a distraction, but also great motivation.
Yup, exactly the same! This time of the year is always like that… But we’ll get over it!
And that is very true unfortunately :/ I think many of us were lurkers and it’s a hard habit to break. But we are slowly getting more monthly active users on threadiverse too, maybe at some point we have a nice frequency of posts in languagelearning too!
Mix of ups and downs this week.
I’ve gotten into to worse time-wasting habits on my phone, tending to mindlessly play chess or scroll Lemmy, etc etc during small downtimes. Need to snap out of that and stop letting Anki cards pile up.
Also started to drift a little into looking for resources too much. Love a good educational resource, but sometimes I find myself seeking those out insteading of using the ones I have. A handful is plenty.
On the upside, I finished my first novella in Spanish. (Not counting that short story collection I read a couple years ago.) Reading a paper book written by a native speaker, aimed at native adults, feels like a pretty good benchmark of progress. Did I understand it all? Not even close. Did I read fast? Nope. But I read through, followed along, finished, and enjoyed it.
Oh yeah I have the same problem with time wasting on the phone. Think for me it’s the stress. Soon I have holiday break!
Piling up those resources is kind of a procrastination type as I understand. Productive though. Do share on this community!
And nice, congratulations! That must be super rewarding! Don’t need to understand or be fast, it’s for learning afterall :)
Yeah, I think there’s some stress about getting holiday stuff done, some about wrapping up work projects, some because I’d just gotten into a bad sleep schedule or got lazy in the cold… but as always, it’s time to move past the reasons and excuses to make more progress. 😄
I need to share back more, will try to keep an eye out for things that might make good posts. I do miss that about the old place, used to see more resources and advice just randomly go across. It can be a distraction, but also great motivation.
Yup, exactly the same! This time of the year is always like that… But we’ll get over it!
And that is very true unfortunately :/ I think many of us were lurkers and it’s a hard habit to break. But we are slowly getting more monthly active users on threadiverse too, maybe at some point we have a nice frequency of posts in languagelearning too!