En ole :( Olen tylsä tonttu :(

Glad to hear I was able to offer something!

Please don’t give up, it’s usually when frustration is at its highest that we have actually made the most progress. It’s just that you understand the language bit more now but you get frustrated by the more difficult parts of the language.

The initial fun of learning common phrases and words wears off quickly but at some point you’ll get that back once you reach a certain level.

Duolingo’s Finnish course is pushing propaganda, not everyone in Finland is a wizard! Or maybe I was left without an invitation to wizard school …

That’s awesome! I still think RuneScape really helped me expand my english vocabulary. As a kid I was clicking on everything and visual feedback helped remembering words.

Wtf… I haven’t had this yet. But I’ve also been considering cancelling my subscription because even with a paid subscription some things are just designed to eat up gems and encourage you to buy them…

Russian is hard, remember that! You have done a ton of progress. I know how that feels and you should know its completely normal.

I don’t know specifically about russian, but I recently went “back” and just bought a book from a lower level and did the exercises everyday after work. I feel more confident and learned some words that I had somehow ignored or missed.

Might not be feasible for you, but my advice is just exercising, looking up words you don’t know, write a short sentence with a new word (on paper, with a pen) and if you are missing some grammar rules you know of, look that up too.

Language learning as an adult is tough, but with discipline you’ll get through.

I hope the tutor keeps you motivated! Two lessons is more than zero and language learning is a long game, no hurry :)

I can relate with the last sentence… I still bump into new words and get all disoriented in a conversation…

Italian music is awesome! Italian is not my target language but I still listen to italian songs!

Awesome! Glad to hear! :)

Seems like lemmy.wtf posts are up again, can you login today?

I’m really sorry to hear you burnt out and of your experience. Thanks for all you have done for threadiverse and tesseract. Hope you get a peace of mind after 31st.

That’s very possible! I mean as a user I also do like stability (had to instance hop quite a few times when I joined fediverse due to them shutting down) but also see resiliency and strenght in being able to spin up an instance of a platform we are all familiar with. When people leave reddit they don’t have similar alternatives with many users, but on lemmy/piefed we can always migrate and stay on the same platform with different rules and administrators.

Of course that’s simplifying the whole topic, but I’m not that worried about fediverse. But you are right of course that for new users who are on the edge already this might be a big dealbreaker. That’s why I always suggest bigger instances first. Once you are comfortable with fedi/threadiverse you can migrate to a smaller instance (I did exactly that once I figured out how this all works). I know lemm.ee shutting down probably made a noticable chunk of people give up on fediverse because we didn’t see any instance completely fill the void that lemm.ee’s weekly activity left.

This topic has had a lot of discussion, but backup plans are good indeed. Lemmy.wtf is small though, so I wouldn’t worry about it and I believe Meldrik is coming back :) what happened with feddit.de was tragic. I wonder if they ever found out what happened to the admin.

Just pinged @[email protected] on matrix. Seems like he’s been away from lemmy (or just not commenting) for a week.

Edit: was made aware that he’s away right now unfortunately :( hope he returns soon and resolves the issue!

Didn’t even think about the annoying notifications, good thinking and this is way too close to reality…

Its okay because your submission is awesome!! Damn, really nicely done

One of the online resources that really helped me in the beginning was from deutsche welle: https://learngerman.dw.com/en/learn-german/s-9528

Another one was “coffee break german” podcast on spotify. Slow, easy and enjoyable podcast that helped me get used to speech!

dict.cc has been awesome online dictionary between english and german, and https://www.duden.de/ for e.g. figuring out the article of a noun.

Thanks for sharing! Honestly this would deserve its own post - hope people learning see this!

I also extensively use browser tools on my learning path and try to read stuff online since I can translate and instantly take notes. Pretty neat that you have an extension to do all that and that there’s an API you can use. I use my Joplin notes but might have to consider something similar…

And yeah resources are plenty it seems and that’s good. German also has plenty of online resources so I’m happy, but sadly many other languages don’t have much yet :(

I struggle with german as well, mostly because I sometimes assume things that just are wrong (when I’m guessing the meaning of a figure of speech).

Hoping you’ll enjoy your reads!

Are you using anki or somethings else for your reviews? And those kind of things are sooo useful to be able to actually use the language, keep it up!!

Sending you my motivational energy to support yours ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Hope you can push through! Motivation is temporary, your habits will carry you through!