Was on vacation most of the week, but I still kept up in flashcards. Didn’t add any new ones, so it was nice to get the number of daily reviews down a bit.
Also had time to enjoy some relaxing reading practice.
Nice, what are you learning? I find it harder to make flashcards for vocab, since my biggest problem is declension.
Japanese. I’m still trying to just attach a general meaning to each (common) Kanji, so when I see it I think “oh, there’s the character for [whatever]”. It’s only a start - still then have to learn actual words and pronunciations and all, but I feel like it’s a step worth taking.
Each time the card comes up with the keyword, I write down the charcter. Being able to write from memory really helps me with recognition. Since I’ve been out with no pen or pad, I’ve just been tracing the characters with my finger on my other hand or leg - gotta stay flexible!
Mainly focused on those flashcards (in Kanji Kohii web app), but I also have Anki decks and cards in jpdb with vocab.
For all the tough parts of Japanese, at least I don’t have to worry about declension
Counting things in Japanese is frustrating
You led me to a rabbit hole, what the fuck lol, never knew it was this hard
You’re not into long pointy things being counted differently than flat things being counted differently than people being counted differently than…?
Counting books? Sure would be nice to use the kanji for book… but nope, that’s for hot dogs or something.
And even if you figure out the right counter word, the numbers are often prounced different ways depending on what follows. Whether it be rendaku or just irregular readings.
I demonstrated Klingon in the “In how many languages can you count to 10?” [email protected] thread, but nobody cared. Where’d all the Trekkies go?
Also, I got a little bored on Duolingo and decided to start German.
Weird, i thought klingon/startrek fans would be abundant on lemmy lol. They have a whole instance, too. Guess those two fields don’t overlap lol.
Slow, mostly steady progress through Practice Portuguese. It often feels like it’s asking stuff that it hasn’t taught me yet so it can be a bit frustrating. I need more review as I forget some things pretty quickly. I do really enjoy seeing all the words that have a counterpart in English but the counterpart isn’t common, like garaffa means bottle and seems like it’s related to carafe. Facil/easy/facilitate, feliz/happy/felicity, etc.
i had my very first class of French 1 this week and am over the moon to be back learning another language in a classroom setting! so far it’s looking more challenging for me than my previous learning, but still very doable for me. i’m optimistic i’m going to take to it very quickly.
That’s awesome :D what do they teach first in classes?
basic vocabulary, greetings, the alphabet and phonetic alphabet, some fun anecdotes about france and the linguistic history of french! but the biggest thing was a major focus on vowel pronunciation since it seems like that’s one of the more difficult parts for newcomers
