I’m hesitant to say “it’s going well”.
I’m keeping up with duolingo but have completely ignored grammar and haven’t studied properly in a long time.
How about finding friends for learning the same language?
Either way best of luck you can do it!🌻✨
I’ve tried, but I find it increasingly difficult to find new friends as I age. Tried going to some meetups (not language specific, but I currently live in the country of the target language) and met nice people, but just didn’t connect.
I’ll definitely keep trying though. Thanks for the positive comment! Best of luck to you as well :)
Hey, what language are you trying to learn? I’m interested in learning Spanish, but find myself losing interest after a while. If that’s one of the languages you’re interested in, we can try this.
Either way, I wish you the best of luck!
I started learning German🌱
mostly just trying to remember basic phrases🤗
I’m trying to browse materials in the languages that I wish to learn, and use a translator when I don’t understand them. Feels like cheating…
I live in a country that doesn’t speak english. Trust me when i say it isn’t cheating using a translator. Until you’re conversationally fluent you’re going to confuse or not understand a lot of words/phrases. For me it was best to carry a translator or dictionary until i understood most of what was said. Now i figure stuff out by context or asking questions about the word i don’t know.
I went on an international trip last year, to a Spanish speaking country. Felt incredibly good to be able to actually communicate with people who do not speak English! I didn’t think I really could, as hard as it is to understand natural-speed speech. Turns out conversation w/ patient native speakers is much easier than just listening.
This year, I’m getting back into Japanese more. Caught up on my Anki and SRS stuff, getting back into the habit of watching videos, and starting to dig into the 2nd volume of the textbook.
I’d say it’s going well!
Been learning Italian for over a year now and it’s going super well.
My strategy involves:
Daily Duolingo (335 day steak and I try to at least do the daily challenges and stay in their obsidian league), Anki for vocab and other things, Italian music (rap and their version of folk/americana), translating La Divina Commedia to English (slowly), Italian films, and my phone has been in Italian for a long time.
I also like to read SCPs in Italian because the format makes it easy to guess if I don’t know what’s going on.
I’m going on a trip to Italy in August as well!
