Do you know how people of your target language do things differently in casual text messages/on the internet?
A good example: russians often drop the double dot from smiling face )))) vs. :)))) or how in some middle-eastern languages they write hhhhhhh instead of the “hahaha”.
I know the feel. I’ve tried to build up a deck of words that cover each common reading of characters, and only a couple hundred charcters in it’s already taken a lot of time. Usually I’m just using other people’s decks, much respect to the people that build the high quality ones.
In one sense it’s probably not a very productive use of time, but I think it can be a great motivator. No resource (deck, video, app, class, etc) is going to make things easy or instant, but if you find or build one that gets you fired up to learn, that counts for a lot.