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[–] [S] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I've been all over the place this week.

Doing a lot on Transparent to start familiarizing more with Thai and German. It's not the greatest, but free through my library. Reminds me of older Duolingo - basic, finite, and fun, even if it's not doing much teaching.

I also took some old 'Learn German' CDs a relative was giving away. I wish dialogs and vocab were a little more isolated from the English explanations and translations. But it's enjoyable, has a mix of vocab, grammar explanations, and some dialogs.

Falling behind regularly on isolated Kanji study, but been catching up on other Anki cards for Japanese.

Started playing the new Trails in the Sky remake. Really liking how it logs all the lines from each cutscene and lets me replay audio. It's too much text for me to play it all in Japanese, but having just the voices seems like a decent splash of listening.

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

    Trails is one of my final bosses of Japanese. The esoterica abounds, and it only gets worse, way worse with it as the series goes on.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 days ago (1 child)

    We'll get there someday!

    Actually, I bet you're pretty close. Have you already made attempts to play through some of them in JP?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Too exhausting, ultimately. Parts of it I'll be okay (like the first half of Sky FC, I would be for example), if slow going. But once the technobabble or military jargon starts, I'm done for. I'll stick to easier stuff for a while. Games with lighter scripts (like 16-bit) have their own fun challenges between pixellated kanji or being heavier on hiragana, too.

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