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How's your language learning going this week? - Weekly thread (Aug 23) (lemmy.world)
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Do your best everyone!

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[–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Taking things slowly still. Only doing 30 mins study on both Japanese and Spanish, but also started doing more immersion with my Japanese and Spanish at 30 mins bare minimum each too. Started working on my Irish again, doing 30 mins, but no immersion. Sometimes it's a lot longer though since a grammar video is 40 minutes and I still need to do flashcards and etc.

Someone recommended BuraBura Japanese, and been binging their videos. It's been really good craic. Spanish is Dreaming in Spanish, and then, as I said, Irish still not advanced enough to get the benefit out of immersion so still need to study for a good long time. Using Madra Teanga for my Irish, it's becoming a lot more fleshed out now so I added it to my dailies.

Realised despite all the efforts in languages, I can't actually do much output at all, so will need to try output practise at some point, but no idea where. Spanish with the GF I suppose, but Irish and Japanese? No idea.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Been researching production platforms myself lately since I'll be shifting my focus to that around the turn of the year. The people I've talked to recently tell me italki or Preply are the way to go if you're serious about it. HelloTalk and Tandem are a step down, I hear.

    VRChat's also supposed to be an option.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    The problem I also face is crippling social anxiety. I can manage with keyboard/messages okay, but when it comes to voice I'm for whatever reason absolutely terrified. So for instance if I did end up finding someone to talk to in Japanese or etc, I'd have to get to know them first through keyboard before I feel comfortable enough verbally talking to them. It's also always to do with calls. I'm fine for text and meetups, but calls/video calls. I'm very hesitant.
    Absolutely daft, I know. But it's a hangup I have.

    This also all being said, I do think the best course forward for me for now, at least vocalising plan wise, is to meet up with some people on some social services online like Discord or etc, maybe completely unrelated to languages, then maybe migrating to Discord Call or VRChat.

    I do appreciate the suggestions, I just don't know how well I'd take to it with the fear and all. Also, always a joy to see your messages on here, but my instance keeps blocking your replies on the post so this is about the only time I can properly respond to you too, but just wanted to say that.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    Thanks for that, it's nice to hear.

    I'd say at the very least make sure you're shadowing with your videos, so you're getting the muscle memory rolling. I actually have the same problem, but in the inverse: I want nitpicky feedback on my speaking, at least for a while at first, but ain't no one gonna do that with social taboos being what they are. A well-prompted AI could do it, but ehhhh. That's a lot of conversation turns, which means it's gonna cost, and at that point I may as well buy italki lessons, lol

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