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How's your language learning going this week? - Weekly thread (Sep 20) (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [M] to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz
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[–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Crawling my way back again. For whatever reason, everything is harder to start. I'm mostly successful, but it's still very difficult despite so.

Depression has been hard this year. Nothing causing it either, no idea what that's about.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Have you done much immersion?

    Just browsing YouTube in my target language (German) and looking things up but I'm another language... I don't understand much but it's mildly relaxing now.

    When I first started doing this even immersion was stressful because I needed so much focus to be able to even do anything. But now I'm at least used to German rhythm and can relax even if it's not all understood.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (4 children)

    Haven't done such yet, well at least not to such a level. It's hard to get time to do more than the basic studies of vocab/grammar before even touching immersion. Really daft though because to really use a language you have to listen to it at the very least. I've been set back somewhat the past while, but once I find sense of stability, I'll find my footing again I figure.

    You help motivate me to doing more though, so cheers!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    Lemme know if you are interested in any comedy skit. I have a bunch saved up. They talk fast but with subtitles, pauses and other effort I'm able to make progress in learning.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (2 children)

    I'd be interested to hear of them, but I can't say I'd be able for them at my current level at least. I have tons of Japanese related media that I am targeting for when I get competent at. I'm very slow so it might be another 2-3 years before I'm even N3 though, so, keep that in mind.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Somehow I thought you were into German... hmmm. Well, I do watch a lot of anime. But I'm not sure how useful that is for language learning (I never tried to learn Japanese).

    I have been getting into German VTubers though. Between music, anime, video game topics, lets plays and such, the German VTubing community actually has a lot of interests that line up with my own. Japan is basically the origin of VTubers, so maybe you can give them a shot?

    At least the German VTubers seem to have simpler and more colloquial language than "normal" German.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    You know what, fair. German is on my to-do list of languages, but not for another very good long while, and other languages are ahead of that too, so it might be a few decades until then. So can't say I'd remember German links here then anyway.

    I do tend to dip my toes into the Japanese Vtubing scene as a viewer to see what the hubub is. That being said, VTubing has become quite saturated lately, so I can't say I'd find the right streamer off the bat, so will take some time. German VTubing does sound interesting as well, mind. What'd I'd love more than either JP/SP/DE/etc Vtubers would be Irish, because at the moment there's only a very few people in the Irish streaming scene doing it as Gaeilge, so being a Vtuber as well would honestly be kick ass. Maybe in the next 10 or so years something might pop up? Who knows.

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