That’s really impressive, nicely done! And thanks for the tip. Think I’ll give that story a go as well.

I think that’s a nice way to go about it with learning enough to be able to read a story and seeing that as a goal. Way more motivating than “want to pass an exam”.

I understand. A dedicated class is definitely the nicest way to do it with someone keeping you accountable :)

Yeah and it’s also super rewarding. I sometimes feel discouraged when I read something and I don’t understand, but talking to someone can fix that (when the person compensates for my lack of skill/vocabulary).

I was wondering about that awhile back. Spanish (and now that you mentioned, Japanese) sound insanely fast!

I also tried no-lookup reading recently and it was great for seeing progress! Probably didn’t understand everything I thought I understand but that’s secondary for now.

That’s exciting! Trips are awesome motivators for me to put time into a language.

The listening must be hard since it’s such a fast phased language, but I really like the attitude of Spanish speakers, think you’ll have a nice environment to practice there :)

Since I also struggle with vocab I just learned some keywords to use like “thing” and “don’t know the word” lol.

Yeah I tried once and that was super confusing. Maybe (hopefully) lemmy and mastodon work on better interoperability in the future.

Meanwhile voyager users:

That’s the way to go. I mean sometimes it’s nice that you have the option to use English if you really feel like it’s a bit much at times. I take advantage of this as well in Vienna. Sometimes I’m just too tired to form a German sentence.

But yeah I also try to communicate in German as much as possible to get comfortable with the language :)

No worries :)

@[email protected] we rarely get answers in our thread from mastodon, cool! Glad to hear you are picking it up. We all move at our own pace, no stress :)

Thanks emb :)

I really like the “until language fades into the background” bit, really summarizes the goal of language learning well!

Wow that’s pretty amazing, you seem to be pretty far in your language learning journey!

Purchasing cheese can get pretty stressful if it’s anything like here at the farmer markets lol.

Bit late but hey don’t feel guilty, you are you and that doesn’t depend on languages you know! You are also one of the most inspiring people I see around.

Super proud of you.

No, haven’t tested bazzite. I’m sure it’s great as I’ve heard good things about it. My comment was just a joke comment since we are in a meme community (but I do actually use mint, btw)

Don’t know what’s all the fuss about (I use mint btw)

That’s a nice tip, have to try that out. Thanks!

Vinegar based cleaner for everything and you are good. Recommend a separate, dedicated mirror cleaner for mirrors though. Clean weekly to reduce the need to scrub with more powerful stuff.

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.