Had really bad news break a few days ago, and bombed that day, but otherwise doing fine. 30-60 mins Japanese. Doing ever so more Spanish, maybe 20-30 mins a day. Lojban reading only doing a few pages a day. Oddly enough only missing a single day of Japanese, my reviews are peaking at 230 cards to do. I hate it when shit happens. Also to add to some details: the bad news was a few days ago, but I'll be facing the worst of it either tomorrow or the day after and then for a while afterwards, so this might be the last decent study session I'm able to do today for a while. At least until things settle down again. If they can to a degree where I can focus again at least.

Won't get into the bad news details, but wish me both luck and mercy.

Had a chance to visit a bigger public library a couple towns over. Found that they had some foreign language materials.

Read a couple Japanese children's books (translated from English), and some of a 10-minute Stories for 2nd Year Students. They were OK. Puts me off how much Kanji they don't use. Takes away valuable semantic clues. Also looked at a couple novels, which are just like, the most words everywhere. Nice to know they're there. Makes me appreciate the middle ground that Tadoku graded readers offer.

Working on building out an Anki deck for Thai alphabet. Found some on ankiWeb that seemed pretty good, but trying to add pictures and the example words. Also been doing Transparent Language Online, which is the learning app my library offers access to. Pretty good tool, especially for starting from scratch.

I've been complaining about the word list 1950 words long for a B1 level course book. I did some reading (in German) and apparently only 750-ish of those words (the ones in bold) are actually part of the B1 test.

As such, I've decided that while I'll translate all words... I'll only put the B1 test words inside of Anki. This should give me a good compromise between vocab drills and course book progress.

Last week was way too much vocabulary not enough course progress.

Interesting moment this week where I struggled with a grammar exercise and then realized upon review it wasn't the grammar, it was the vocab I was getting wrong.

It's starting to dawn on me, between this and feeling like I'm getting somewhere close to particle mastery, that I don't have much all that much farther to go on grammar learning. Stopped seeing new particle forms and verb conjugations a long time ago, there's far more grammar concepts behind me than there are ahead (assuming I don't do something wild like dive into Chinese literature study or old books). Maybe it's typical for reaching the end of the intermediate journey? Everything becomes vocab, vocab, vocab.

I might already be at the point where I need to start trusting my grammar forms over my vocab knowledge when a sentence doesn't make sense. I've been an Anki warrior for so long that it's a weird switch to flip in my head.