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Also just don't sleep on studying kanji, it's underrated AF in language learning circles. Personally I use the "Kanji...

Also just don't sleep on studying kanji, it's underrated AF in language learning circles. Personally I use the "Kanji Study" app on Android with the SRS and graded reader (example sentences) addons. It trains meaning, recognition and recall in real vocab, and writing all nicely and thoroughly. If you've got a tablet w/ stylus, float and pin it on top of a note taking app, or just use a notebook, so you can get extra writing practice when the app doesn't give you a writing practice card

Our brains are pattern recognition gods, but also fickle meat driven by interests and boredom.The optimal path may feel like it should...

Our brains are pattern recognition gods, but also fickle meat driven by interests and boredom.

The optimal path may feel like it should remain "study everything and take it gradually," but interest and boredom always throws a wrench into it. The optimal path may instead be maintaining enough natural input and consistent study as a baseline, but add bursts of *heavy* focus on subjects you find difficulty with until you notice significant improvements and other bottlenecks become more noticeable

It's interesting how much intermediate japanese learning feels like widening bottlenecks rather than predictable generalized...

It's interesting how much intermediate japanese learning feels like widening bottlenecks rather than predictable generalized improvement. I used to have shitty coverage of core grammar, and focusing on that helped a lot, but recently I've been feeling how limited kanji knowledge bottlenecks both my reading speed/comprehension (and thus vocab/grammar acquisition). Now I've been on a huge kanji kick towards N2, which seems to be hugely boosting my vocab and dramatically reducing dictionary lookups

I think I've *finally* reached a level in japanese where everything just feels like it's become way easier. I'm finally able to...

I think I've *finally* reached a level in japanese where everything just feels like it's become way easier. I'm finally able to leave my phone in Japanese, I've started going through a prep book for the ITパスポート cert (ample vocab mining and reading), I'm playing all my games in japanese, and most media aimed at teens (shounen etc) no longer feels like a total slog or chore. Immersion finally feels practical without any extra tools besides a dictionary.

Turns out, school works. (And meds)

TTYD remake

TTYD remake

Finally found a 🐧penguin🐧 at Daiso!

Finally found a 🐧penguin🐧 at Daiso!

Vaccine chills woooooooo

Vaccine chills woooooooo

Who was that kid at the end dedicating the award to Bill Clinton lmao what even 🤣

Who was that kid at the end dedicating the award to Bill Clinton lmao what even 🤣

#introduction I'm a weekly Twitch streamer and #cpp and #rust #rustlang programmer. I occasionally mess around with #gamedev, #pixelart,...

#introduction I'm a weekly Twitch streamer and #cpp and #rust #rustlang programmer. I occasionally mess around with #gamedev, #pixelart, and KiCAD too, hopefully I'll post some of that stuff. Also penguins are great🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

Mastodon/Fediverse is cool and all, but we need a way to browse the feeds of federated (non-local) servers independently. Right now the only...

Mastodon/Fediverse is cool and all, but we need a way to browse the feeds of federated (non-local) servers independently. Right now the only options to find people to follow are by already following a user that boosts lots of other users, looking at instances' about pages in a browser, searching for things specifically with hashtags, scrolling through countless off topic posts in the public timeline, or making additional accounts just to browse posts from other servers. It feels inefficient