Late by two days 😎
I don’t normally participate here because I’m still new, but I just found out that a guy I’ve been playing volleyball with almost every week for a year is from the country where my target language is spoken! I’m so stoked! I had no idea because his accent doesn’t sound like he’s from there. I had a very basic conversation with him, and he was awesome about it, speaking slowly and using basic vocabulary. But still, we were able to go back and forth in conversation! I figured you all would understand how lucky I feel, especially since we’re in somewhat of a rural town. I’m so excited to ask him more things
Glad you’re with us, that sounds very cool :D I don’t have any latin/ukrainian speakers to practice with, but it seems very useful to practice with a real speaker.
I’ve been slowly chipping away at LLPSI for latin, and using https://ukrainianlanguage.uk/read/index.htm for ukrainian.
For esperanto (which i’m not dedicated to, currently) i just use https://lernu.net/ and https://esperanto12.net/
For esperanto
Ĉu vi lernas Esperanton?? Mojose!! Mi ne sciis ĝin
Jes mi estas esperantisto nun :D
It’s still very rough, but as i said i’m focusing on ukrainian and latin. Partially got inspired by that you know hebrew, russian and esperanto and i as arabic and ukrainian (not the same, but languages are close enough ¯_(ツ)_/¯) I saw the esperanto part, and while i knew about it for a long time, that was just the last push that told me “eh, why the fuck not”. Obviously the difference is that you’ve spent much more time on russian/esperanto than i with ukrainian, but it’s getting there 😎
我的爱说我的中文好。我说我的中文不好。
I mean, if you wrote that yourself i think that’s very impressive :D
Unrelated, i used Deepl and i realized how, besides the memorizations of the characters, it’s pretty easy to read.
I recognized 中文 (chinese) 我的 (my) 我 (i, me), 不 (not) 好 (good). Passively memorizing chinese characters is fun (besides learning how to actually write them c’;)
The characters are the ones I struggle with. I wrote it in Pinyin, and saw what characters look right. With modern keyboard software, the more you write in pinyin, the better it guesses what characters you want because of context, I guess.
The fun and annoying thing about Chinese is that you can learn to read it without actually learning to speak or understand chinese. It’s annoying because you essentially have to learn two languages (Three, technically, because it’s so foreign they don’t use the same terms as us. For example, here you may ask “how are you?” As a greeting, in Chinese you can translate that as “Ni hao ma?”, but that’s irrelevant because the Chinese don’t use this as a greeting).
Although Chinese people can read some Japanese without speaking it which is cool.
Deux jours? Vous n’êtes probablement pas enceinte
Two days late, i wouldn’t overcook my child like that 😤
Little bit of a slower week for me. Had some family stuff to focus on, and now some work stuff. So I haven’t picked up as many new things, but I’m glad that I’ve been keeping up with reviews even when busy. If I let them just pile up several days, it can get to be a bit much.
I’m also in process of switching (my primary study resource) from one Kanji book to a different one. I think it will be to my benefit, but it is a little bit of a speedbump getting into a new flow.
Yeah, same. I’ve been very slow these few weeks, both of being lazy and busy lol. I get that feeling of dread seeing piles of practice in front of you that you missed xd
