• droning_in_my_ears@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I’ve been meeting my daily goal every single day, but I don’t feel any progress. Had to write a little simulation just to tell myself it’s coming lol

  • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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    20 days ago

    I’m realizing that I really need to do more listening and speech practice but I’m not taking any IRL lessons or anything

  • Lit@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Completed

    • Le Grand Cahier (took about 2-3 weeks this is the first native book I completed.)
    • Few graded books from hachette. They have free audio files so loading them in lingQ to read along as well.

    Next native book was supposed to be Petit Nicolas, started reading it but came across this book La petite fille de monsieur Linh by Philippe Caludel which felt much easier to read so am going through that now.

    Having similar problems like other posters here, don’t feel like making progress in the language as a whole. Mainly due to not practicing speaking, writing and not enough native listening.

  • HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz
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    19 days ago

    I’ve almost made it to a one month long streak. It feels good my retention rate has leveled out after having restarted. Still a long way to go but currently I’ve learned ~35% of n5 kanji, and ~20% of n5 vocab. Yay progress!

    I’ve not adopted it consistently, but Wagotabi looks to be a fun tool to learn/study, too.

    • emb@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      I was just playing Chants of Sennaar and wondering why the same type of game isn’t out there for real languages.

      And of course the obvious answer is that it is, I just don’t know. Wagotabi looks neat. I’m still dipping my toes in with playing other games with language set to Japanese, but W seems like it might be a fun bridge.

      • HotChickenFeet@sopuli.xyz
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        19 days ago

        There’s a lot I like about Wagotabi. Not perfect by any means, but I think if offers a fair bit for reinforcement fairly naturally without just always beating you over the head with flash cards. And does offer a little listening practice too at times.

    • Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
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      19 days ago

      Try music. My brain seems to click better with words when they are sung. Once I learn the lyrics and what they mean, singing along helps me program them into my brain much better than reading or watching movies/TV.

    • emb@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      There’s a big gulf where basic exercises seem too simple, and real, spoken language seems unbearably fast and difficult.

      Good luck! I’m confident that it will improve over time if we keep engaging with the target language every day. But I don’t expect any results to be quick.