Tagalog + Swedish
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 10:47 pm
Euskara / Basque
It's been a dream of mine to learn Basque and i've finally found myself in a situation where i can dedicate myself to learning it nearly full-time. I've been in Donostia for the past few months and will be here at least until the end of June. I'm currently studying in an euskaltegi (a school specifically for teaching adults Basque) at the B2 level. My speaking is still very rough, but my comprehension has improved considerably these past few months. Since i got here in September i've read about 10-15 books in Basque and listened to the radio on my way to and from class, about 50 minutes a day, alongside my daily classes (3 hours). I was under the perception that Basque was spoken and understood by the majority of the people here which unfortunately is not the case, however i generally try to speak Basque with someone first and have been able to get around pretty well speaking just Basque. I hear most parents around my age speaking to their children in Basque which always makes me happy. I'd love to be able to help make the language more accessible to other people, both in and outside of the Basque Country. I really love this place.
Egiten ari naizena / What i'm doing
[*]Lots of reading.
[*]3 hours of class at the euskaltegi Monday through Friday
[*]Around 50 minutes of listening to the radio on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 25 minutes MWF.
[*]An "irakurketa erraza" (easy reading) group once a week. [-completed-]
[*]"Mintzalaguna" (literally, speaking friend, i.e. meeting in a group with a native Basque speaker to chat in Basque for an hour) once a week.
Epe motzeko helburuak / Short-term goals
[*]Become much more comfortable reading.
[*]Improve my listening comprehension (at present, depending on the topic, radio comprehension is hovering between 70-90%).
[*]Catch my speaking ability up to my passive skills.
Epe luzeko helburuak / Long-term goals
[*]All around C2
[*]Create tools and resources for learning Basque
日本語 / Japanese
I started learning Japanese in August after reading about MIA (Mass Immersion Approach). It stresses passive skills at first and only activating them once you have a strong understanding/intuition for the language. As i don't see myself ever frequently going to Japan, i'm more interested in passive skills anyway. The idea sounded interesting so i decided to try it out and see where it can take me. I haven't been following it as intensively as i have other languages to maintain as well, but i've been doing my best. I generally get around 2 hours of passive listening and 1-2 hours of active listening (watching anime despite never really being a huge fan). I finished RRTK, a recognition-only variant of the Remembering the Kanji book which focuses only on the 1,000 most common characters of the book. Coming from Mandarin/Cantonese, the characters haven't been much of an issue. Tomorrow i'll also have finished the Tango N5 book, which contains sentences for the most common 1,000 or so words. From there, the main body of the method actually starts: namely sentence mining. As silly as it sounds, my main inspiration for learning Japanese is to be able to play my favorite Japanese RPGs and be able to consider it studying. Another interest point has been reading about Chinese anarchism and learning that the first Chinese anarchists first came across anarchism studying abroad in Japan (and later in France) and imported it back into China. I'm not sure how strong of an anarchist tradition still exists today in Japan, but that time period (early 1900s) is really interesting to me and i'd love to read more about it (in Japanese, of course!).
What i'm doing/have done
[*]RRTK (done)
[*]Tango N5 (one day left)
[*]Read through all of Tae Kim's grammar guide (done)
[*]Watching anime every day.
[*]Watching Japanese Ammo with Misa's beginner grammar video lessons.
Short-term goals
[*]Reach the point where i can understand enough to enjoy native Japanese content.
[*]Get comfortable with the Japanese writing system.
Long-term goals
[*]Be able to understand Japanese media in Japanese, including video games.
[*]Play through my favorite RPGs (Legend of Legaia, Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, etc.) in Japanese.
[*]Relive special childhood memories by watching the original Pokemon series in Japanese
MIA progress
Audio Immersion
Series/Anime
1. デスノート (Death Note)
2. Working!! (first three seasons)
3. 花咲くいろは (Hanasaku Iroha)
4. ハンター×ハンター (Hunter x Hunter)
5. ボールルームへようこそ (Welcome to the Ballroom)
6. 四月は君の嘘 (Your Lie in April)
7. 氷菓 (Hyouka)
8. しろくまカフェ (Shirokuma Cafe)
9. ドクターX (Doctor X S01-04)
10. 政宗くんのリベンジ (Masamune-kun's Revenge)
12. うさぎドロップ (Bunny Drop)
13. 宇宙よりも遠い場所 (A Place Further than the Universe)
14. たまゆらひととせ (Tamayura Hitotose)
15. とらドラ! (Toradora!)
16. 恋は雨上がりのように (After the Rain)
17. となりの怪物くん (My Little Monster)
18. ブレンド・S (Blend S)
19. カードキャプターさくら (Cardcaptor Sakura ep1-19)
20. イタズラなキス (Mischievous Kiss)
21. 僕だけがいない街 (Erased)
22. 響け! ユーフォニアム (Sound! Euphonium)
23. 風が強く吹いている (Run with the Wind)
24. 灰羽連盟 (Haibane Renmei)
25. 進撃の巨人 (Attack on Titan S1)
26. 池袋ウエストゲートパーク (Ikebukuro West Gate Park)
27. 一週間フレンズ (One Week Friends)
Movies
1. 秒速5センチメートル (5 Centimeters per Second)
2. 泣きたい私は猫をかぶる (A Whisker Away)
3. カメラを止めるな! (One Cut of the Dead)
4. 初恋 (First Love)
5. 君の膵臓をたべたい (I want to eat your Pancreas)
6. ベイマックス (Big Hero 6)
7. シュガー・ラッシュ / 2 (Wreck-It Ralph / 2)
8. アトム (Astro Boy)
9. 長ぐつをはいたネコ (Puss in Boots)
10. ザ・シンプソンズ MOVIE (The Simpsons Movie)
11. ティーンエイジ・ミュータント・ニンジャ・タートルズ (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
12. アトランティス 失われた帝国 (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
13. アラジン (Aladdin)
14. ズートピア (Zootopia)
15. ルイスと未来泥棒 (Meet the Robinsons)
16. 曇り時々ミートボール / 2 (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs / 2)
17. モンスター・ホテル / 2 / 3 (Hotel Transylvania / 2 / 3)
18. マダガスカル / 2 / 3 (Madagascar / 2 / 3)
19. スパイダーマン: スパイダーバース (Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse)
20. ヒックとドラゴン / 2 (How to Train your Dragon / 2)
21. ガーディアンズ 伝説の勇者たち (Rise of the Guardians)
22. クルードさんちのはじめての冒険 (The Croods)
23. ボス・ベイビー (The Boss Baby)
24. 心が叫びたがってるんだ (Anthem of the Heart)
25. マウス・タウン ロディとリタの大冒険 (Flushed Away)
26. 森のリトル・ギャング (Over the Hedge)
27. 空の青さを知る人よ (Her Blue Sky)
28. シュレック / 2 / 3 (Shrek / 2 / 3)
Text Immersion
Games
1. Pokemon Blue
2. Fire Emblem: Awakening
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
4. Fire Emblem: Conquest
Books/Manga
1. 四月は君の嘘 (Your Lie in April, vols 1-4)
2. ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 (Harry Potter 1) - 08/06/2020
3. ハリー・ポッターと秘密の部屋 (Harry Potter 2) - 10/11/2020
4. ハリー・ポッターとアズカバンの囚人 (Harry Potter 3)
Stage 1 (audio cards) - completed 5/8/2020
Recognition RTK - 1000 Kanji:
Basic Grammar/Vocab - Tango N5 + Tae Kim:
Sentence Mining - 2000 Sentences:
Stage 2 (reading cards)
Monolingual Transition: ☐
Monolingual Transition - Phase 1:
Monolingual Transition - Phase 2 ☐
Monolingual Transition - Phase 3 ☐
Monolingual Transition - Phase 4 ☐
Sentence Mining - 3000 Sentences:
It's been a dream of mine to learn Basque and i've finally found myself in a situation where i can dedicate myself to learning it nearly full-time. I've been in Donostia for the past few months and will be here at least until the end of June. I'm currently studying in an euskaltegi (a school specifically for teaching adults Basque) at the B2 level. My speaking is still very rough, but my comprehension has improved considerably these past few months. Since i got here in September i've read about 10-15 books in Basque and listened to the radio on my way to and from class, about 50 minutes a day, alongside my daily classes (3 hours). I was under the perception that Basque was spoken and understood by the majority of the people here which unfortunately is not the case, however i generally try to speak Basque with someone first and have been able to get around pretty well speaking just Basque. I hear most parents around my age speaking to their children in Basque which always makes me happy. I'd love to be able to help make the language more accessible to other people, both in and outside of the Basque Country. I really love this place.
Egiten ari naizena / What i'm doing
[*]Lots of reading.
[*]3 hours of class at the euskaltegi Monday through Friday
[*]Around 50 minutes of listening to the radio on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 25 minutes MWF.
[*]An "irakurketa erraza" (easy reading) group once a week. [-completed-]
[*]"Mintzalaguna" (literally, speaking friend, i.e. meeting in a group with a native Basque speaker to chat in Basque for an hour) once a week.
Epe motzeko helburuak / Short-term goals
[*]Become much more comfortable reading.
[*]Improve my listening comprehension (at present, depending on the topic, radio comprehension is hovering between 70-90%).
[*]Catch my speaking ability up to my passive skills.
Epe luzeko helburuak / Long-term goals
[*]All around C2
[*]Create tools and resources for learning Basque
日本語 / Japanese
I started learning Japanese in August after reading about MIA (Mass Immersion Approach). It stresses passive skills at first and only activating them once you have a strong understanding/intuition for the language. As i don't see myself ever frequently going to Japan, i'm more interested in passive skills anyway. The idea sounded interesting so i decided to try it out and see where it can take me. I haven't been following it as intensively as i have other languages to maintain as well, but i've been doing my best. I generally get around 2 hours of passive listening and 1-2 hours of active listening (watching anime despite never really being a huge fan). I finished RRTK, a recognition-only variant of the Remembering the Kanji book which focuses only on the 1,000 most common characters of the book. Coming from Mandarin/Cantonese, the characters haven't been much of an issue. Tomorrow i'll also have finished the Tango N5 book, which contains sentences for the most common 1,000 or so words. From there, the main body of the method actually starts: namely sentence mining. As silly as it sounds, my main inspiration for learning Japanese is to be able to play my favorite Japanese RPGs and be able to consider it studying. Another interest point has been reading about Chinese anarchism and learning that the first Chinese anarchists first came across anarchism studying abroad in Japan (and later in France) and imported it back into China. I'm not sure how strong of an anarchist tradition still exists today in Japan, but that time period (early 1900s) is really interesting to me and i'd love to read more about it (in Japanese, of course!).
What i'm doing/have done
[*]RRTK (done)
[*]Tango N5 (one day left)
[*]Read through all of Tae Kim's grammar guide (done)
[*]Watching anime every day.
[*]Watching Japanese Ammo with Misa's beginner grammar video lessons.
Short-term goals
[*]Reach the point where i can understand enough to enjoy native Japanese content.
[*]Get comfortable with the Japanese writing system.
Long-term goals
[*]Be able to understand Japanese media in Japanese, including video games.
[*]Play through my favorite RPGs (Legend of Legaia, Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, etc.) in Japanese.
[*]Relive special childhood memories by watching the original Pokemon series in Japanese
MIA progress
Audio Immersion
Series/Anime
1. デスノート (Death Note)
2. Working!! (first three seasons)
3. 花咲くいろは (Hanasaku Iroha)
4. ハンター×ハンター (Hunter x Hunter)
5. ボールルームへようこそ (Welcome to the Ballroom)
6. 四月は君の嘘 (Your Lie in April)
7. 氷菓 (Hyouka)
8. しろくまカフェ (Shirokuma Cafe)
9. ドクターX (Doctor X S01-04)
10. 政宗くんのリベンジ (Masamune-kun's Revenge)
12. うさぎドロップ (Bunny Drop)
13. 宇宙よりも遠い場所 (A Place Further than the Universe)
14. たまゆらひととせ (Tamayura Hitotose)
15. とらドラ! (Toradora!)
16. 恋は雨上がりのように (After the Rain)
17. となりの怪物くん (My Little Monster)
18. ブレンド・S (Blend S)
19. カードキャプターさくら (Cardcaptor Sakura ep1-19)
20. イタズラなキス (Mischievous Kiss)
21. 僕だけがいない街 (Erased)
22. 響け! ユーフォニアム (Sound! Euphonium)
23. 風が強く吹いている (Run with the Wind)
24. 灰羽連盟 (Haibane Renmei)
25. 進撃の巨人 (Attack on Titan S1)
26. 池袋ウエストゲートパーク (Ikebukuro West Gate Park)
27. 一週間フレンズ (One Week Friends)
Movies
1. 秒速5センチメートル (5 Centimeters per Second)
2. 泣きたい私は猫をかぶる (A Whisker Away)
3. カメラを止めるな! (One Cut of the Dead)
4. 初恋 (First Love)
5. 君の膵臓をたべたい (I want to eat your Pancreas)
6. ベイマックス (Big Hero 6)
7. シュガー・ラッシュ / 2 (Wreck-It Ralph / 2)
8. アトム (Astro Boy)
9. 長ぐつをはいたネコ (Puss in Boots)
10. ザ・シンプソンズ MOVIE (The Simpsons Movie)
11. ティーンエイジ・ミュータント・ニンジャ・タートルズ (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
12. アトランティス 失われた帝国 (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
13. アラジン (Aladdin)
14. ズートピア (Zootopia)
15. ルイスと未来泥棒 (Meet the Robinsons)
16. 曇り時々ミートボール / 2 (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs / 2)
17. モンスター・ホテル / 2 / 3 (Hotel Transylvania / 2 / 3)
18. マダガスカル / 2 / 3 (Madagascar / 2 / 3)
19. スパイダーマン: スパイダーバース (Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse)
20. ヒックとドラゴン / 2 (How to Train your Dragon / 2)
21. ガーディアンズ 伝説の勇者たち (Rise of the Guardians)
22. クルードさんちのはじめての冒険 (The Croods)
23. ボス・ベイビー (The Boss Baby)
24. 心が叫びたがってるんだ (Anthem of the Heart)
25. マウス・タウン ロディとリタの大冒険 (Flushed Away)
26. 森のリトル・ギャング (Over the Hedge)
27. 空の青さを知る人よ (Her Blue Sky)
28. シュレック / 2 / 3 (Shrek / 2 / 3)
Text Immersion
Games
1. Pokemon Blue
2. Fire Emblem: Awakening
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
4. Fire Emblem: Conquest
Books/Manga
1. 四月は君の嘘 (Your Lie in April, vols 1-4)
2. ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 (Harry Potter 1) - 08/06/2020
3. ハリー・ポッターと秘密の部屋 (Harry Potter 2) - 10/11/2020
4. ハリー・ポッターとアズカバンの囚人 (Harry Potter 3)
Stage 1 (audio cards) - completed 5/8/2020
Recognition RTK - 1000 Kanji:
Basic Grammar/Vocab - Tango N5 + Tae Kim:
Sentence Mining - 2000 Sentences:
Stage 2 (reading cards)
Monolingual Transition: ☐
Monolingual Transition - Phase 1:
Monolingual Transition - Phase 2 ☐
Monolingual Transition - Phase 3 ☐
Monolingual Transition - Phase 4 ☐
Sentence Mining - 3000 Sentences: