No proper studies, but a few Italian articles appeared in my feed over the days, and tried reading through them. Found easier to understand than French, and both languages I never studied.
Not even self-studied? What’s the language closest to Italian that you have been learning that you were able to read it? Pretty impressive!
My native language, Portuguese e.e"
Ohh that’s sweet! I think my native language (Finnish) won’t help me with any other than vaguely a bit of Estonian read lol. Even then it’s bit tricky. Some words are similar but have completely different meaning.
Missed 2 days of Irish, not back to back, but it’s just one day I was having an episode (still did JP/SP), and then the other day I was knocked out for about 22 hours.
Out of all the languages I study, Japanese is the easiest to study, because I can do parts of it every so often, and also do more dedicated longer routines added and the workload is doable. Irish or Spanish has to have studies done all at once, and it’s harder to manage to slot the time around them then. I’m really all for this hourly SRS based learning, really helps motivate me when I think about languages.
Wall of text about study software, be warned:
Next to this, I ended up getting new study software to try out, since I find new wave of software at times boosts the mood for focusing more. “gogh: Focus with Your Avatar” [sic], but it was very obtuse. It has less in the way of managing tasks and timers, and also ended up having a lot more requirements for completing their achievement system. I’m okay with using a study app for 100 hours, but so long as I can study using the timers I prefer, but this app has study with a timer counting down 100 hours, then counting up 100 hours, and there’s tons of nitpicks like that where it felt it was unnecessary fluff. Next to that, it seems to be very poorly optimised. Even when tabbed out to other apps, it would still constantly be at 5% of a Ryzen 9 processor, meanwhile my other study apps are roughly <1% and only sometimes will boost to 2%, which isn’t a problem. gogh, I constantly hear my PC whirr, and the noise is distracting. Also the music lineup tends to be sort of on the otherside of relaxing, which doesn’t help. But yeah, that software didn’t end up helping me lock in like the other 2 things I tried. I’m back to Spirit City again, despite it not having the best time management, just because it has a better atmosphere, and that helps me focus in more.I plan on making my own software too at some point, but atm I’m swamped.
Also ended up getting a part time job as a volunteer, so will have my focus drift a bit, but still should be able to manage that and the 3 hours of languages. Maths on the otherhand, I need to dive back into the most, and it’s hard jumping into that when it’s hard completing these baseline tasks first.Wall of text sorry. But yeah, studying is going good so far. Always pumped to do more.
Don’t worry about the wall of text, it’s always interesting and enjoyable to read about your language learning journey. I see you as maxxing on learning lol and it’s really cool to get a glimpse into your routines, reviews of resources and progress.
Motivates me too. Lately I’ve done the bare minimum because life’s been in the way for the last 2 months. Will get better in October.
Was doing super well until I wasn’t anymore. Also trying to claw back the workload. Today’s been really difficult too. I think it’s okay to sometimes just survive a while before you can start to bloom. We’ve all been there.
Hope you feel better tomorrow! And yes you are absolutely right, it’s ok to sometimes just be and pick up speed when you can again.
