Sounds to me like you’ve made a great leap in your learning! It is indeed psychological and you aren’t taking any steps back. Realising where you are lacking is in itself a step forward!

Talking to yourself is something that I also try to do to practice German. A one-on-one conversation is stressful because you don’t want to always keep the other person waiting until you form a proper sentence structure in your head, but you yourself have time to listen to yourself until you get more comfortable :)

That’s actually a cool idea. Sounds like a great motivation for learning and a good way to actually remember the sentences.

Glad to hear you are getting back into it :)

Wishing you good and cozy learning sessions :)

This is useful, thanks for sharing! And we’ve got a few finnish learners commenting once in awhile here so I believe they’d also be interested!

Hmm yeah I understand. Communities can be super toxic too with all their gatekeeping.

Hope you find a language you enjoy learning.

Interesting, Austrians do the same and say "good sliding [into the new year] right before new year, which they switch to “happy new year” when it’s actually new year.

Nice, we’ll be following your journey this year!

Learning a language with a clear goal (e.g. reading your choice of manga) is exciting and very rewarding.

Due to motivation / frustration or just lost interest? Latin is cool and from what I’ve heard it’s fun.

Damn, I can’t believe I’m saying this but that is a very beautiful radiator.

Ah! You might be the first one on your server that has subscribed to this community, that might be it. Your server only starts federating with remote communities (like this one on sopuli) once someone from your server subscribes.

It’s a bit janky at times and takes time to properly federate content on the initial subscription.

Glad the comments arrived. Welcome :)

I’m not forced to, but occasionally my job kinda requires it so I dualboot (most of my coworkers who are on linux run a windows virtual machine when they need it).

But my previous job required windows due to all the industry specific software only working on windows. No chance of getting that to work on linux sadly. Then I just used windows at work. It’s always my employer’s hardware anyway and I like to keep work and free-time separate so it was ok.

That sounds like a lot of progress, nicely done.

I know the struggle and unfortunately there is no way around it except listening and trying to fill the gaps with context until you are able to take it all in at some point. I tried listening “coffee break german” on youtube for awhile and think it helped, but it was a bit boring.

Yup! Lemmy is full of communities that died out because they were not active enough. Then no one posts new content there because last post was from 6 months ago and it’s perceived dead.

emb already gave a good answer, but I want to add that you can always block a community if you don’t like to create your own curated subscribed-feed and are annoyed at these threads popping up on all-feed.

If you think this community breaks any instance rules on your instance, feel free to report it. Otherwise I highly recommend the above suggestion.

For those who are too lazy to check what people here in the comments are saying, here’s what happpens when you open the page in reader mode:

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!

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 :)

Ah damn, sounds like there aren’t many resources for Swahili :(

I hope you get something out of duolingo for it and wish you a productive week with Swahili!

Can relate. Used to enjoy duolingo, now i am annoyed everytime I use it.