(glad they fixed the blacklist issues. I hadn't been around here much over the summer/fall, and then that happened, and I disappeared again)
Germans's been on hiatus this summer; although I've kept reading the german agatha christies (I have developed a kind of a obsession and have collected over 20 of them now, I have a couple of other books but the ACs are just the right mix of challenging and comfortable). And it's not been a waste, sometime over the summer/fall, my reading ability took an uptick and I felt more able to read some harder material, like the example sentences that the Collins online dictionary presents (although of course the first thing that happens after you think that, that is you find something that gives you trouble). I also think understanding spoken german has gotten easier but I might be overestimating myself.
I'd quit doing anki, then restarted, but I have enough words that it's just unmanageable. While I would like to have 20-30 minutes worth of cards to study every day, to get the right set of words out of all those cards just takes too much time. I keep trying new systems and they never just work, since passing a review just does not correlate well with really knowing a word. Sometimes when I see the english word prompt I throw something random in german and it's correct, although I don't have any idea where it came from, and there are plenty of words I am understanding in context but get wrong in anki.
Currently ignoring grammar except for adjective endings. I am still determined to master adjective endings but drilling on der and ein before I start again on not-proceeded. I would probably get at least a B on a test but I want this to be automatic and obvious.
This all said, I feel like it's stagnating a bit, and I've been considering something new, perhaps trying Assimil French (actually buying a program). My last start in French never went anywhere. As a false beginner with random abilities, programs were absolutely maddening but here I would be an actual beginner. I was also wondering if I should spend some time on Spanish as that has been idle for almost three years. I feel like I can still read fairly well, but I was so terrible at conversation... well maybe I didn't have a lot to lose there anyway
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