I don’t know much about Japanese politics, but if you reeeally want to keep learning I hope you find your motivation again!! Keep checking here weekly and post your progress :)

Super happy to hear that! Yeah there are ups and downs and it’s all about not giving up and staying consistent / daring with trying it out.

Swear words to the rescue! Lol

Thank you for your words, this thread has helped me get over the situation.

Very wise words and think they gave me a boost to my self esteem :) I’ll definitely not give up.

Same. I can’t fully replicate it and need more structure and guidance for learning. It helps to follow a course book though, give that a try!

Never thought about pokemon for language learning, but sounds like an awesome pick for that!

Oh wow I checked it out and does look like a tough language to learn, wishing you luck! And yeah my partner is quite disappointed about the lack of options for learning finnish. Duolingo has finally apparently added speaking exercises to finnish course but developments are slow.

Thank you for your words of encouragement. This thread made me try it out again with more positive outcome :)

Guess I got to remember that people can be rude in any language regardless of my level.

Oh yeah I 100% agree with that.

For sure it took more back then, however looking at people using their phones/tablets for everything I think you can still learn a lot by simply trying out and using a computer to do similar tasks you would do on a phone too.

The screenshot might have been a bad analogy since e.g. steam actually lets you access your screenshots directly in the application, but if you want to set it as your background image you still have to access the file itself.

Thanks! This was actually a great question too, because I hadn’t really thought about how I gradually learned to use a computer.

For me it was games on a computer. Learned how to use the keyboard, mouse, and later troubleshoot shit that was not working because I really wanted to play a game.

It’s small things like “oh I can take a screenshot, hmm where does the screenshot go?” and that’s how you learn to navigate files and folders etc.

Lol love the connection to grass! Thanks for sharing.

Focus has been an ongoing struggle for many here sadly. Guess it’s also because listening comprehension can be quite taxing too. Let us know how it goes and what you tried out!

Oh wow! A very cool goal but don’t burn yourself out!

I think as long as you know some basics people are happy even if you don’t know their language :) In german I always start with (in german) hello, excuse me I have a question, but my german is not very good. Do speak english?"

This changes their attitude usually towards a more friendly one than directly asking in english. Often, after this, they want to help even if they don’t know english.

Japanese tweets always look so interesting, i feel like there is so much to their internet culture! And yeah the Spanish J sounding like H makes this funny to someone learning German :D

Good idea. And good point. Vocabulary training is actually more productive if you can associate those words with certain sentences, really helps with memorizing!

+1 to this question, I am really curious. That’s quite the task!

That is starting to sound like a serious hobby wow. Cool as long as you don’t burn yourself out.

If you do create a crossword puzzle out of an anki deck please let us know! That would be kinda useful lol.

We should seriously push for Project O

Learning and related tasks are never a waste of time :) that sounds awesome. I mean as long as it’s fun of course.

I had a similar experience! Online was much worse than in-person. The in-person class gave me so much more for my time and money.

Damn nice streak!

PS: there’s a newer weekly thread as this one was posted last sunday, but that’s ok :) just letting you know in case you expect more comments here.