Re: Japanese and Chill (Also Wanderlust Chaos)
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:13 pm
Just a quick update. I have mainly still been continuing on my current path of only engaging in languages for fun.
With Japanese, I've been watching 鋼の錬金術師 without any subtitles. This is my favorite anime TV show, and I've watched it 2x previously over the last ten years. I think under normal circumstances, this show would be too challenging for me. But, since I've seen it before, but not enough to have more than a general idea of what is happening in each scene, this is winding up being pretty good listening practice for me. I have continued to play Temtem in Spanish and watch 우리, 사랑했을까 in Korean. As always, I mainly use Esperanto to chat with friends, but I also read thru something short which someone had translated to Esperanto, and gave them my feedback. A friend talked me into messing with Dutch a little bit, and I am starting to use Toki Pona for sitelen sitelen. Here's a drawing I did using sitelen sitelen characters:
I am aware that I can't keep juggling all these languages and messing around just for fun. My plan at the moment is to allow myself to continue this way, not particularly studying, looking at whatever takes my fancy until September 1st... after which point I will evaluate if my burnout has sufficiently subsided/return to a plan which only includes Japanese, Esperanto, and Spanish for a while. I haven't quite worked out what this plan will be, but it will probably involve Japanese every day, and Esperanto and Spanish on specific days. (besides helping out komencantojn because I love doing that). I figure that if I want to continue messing around with sitelen sitelen, my level of toki pona will be good enough after another 2 weeks that I do not need to put time into studying it anymore, and can just use it for art projects.
With Japanese, I've been watching 鋼の錬金術師 without any subtitles. This is my favorite anime TV show, and I've watched it 2x previously over the last ten years. I think under normal circumstances, this show would be too challenging for me. But, since I've seen it before, but not enough to have more than a general idea of what is happening in each scene, this is winding up being pretty good listening practice for me. I have continued to play Temtem in Spanish and watch 우리, 사랑했을까 in Korean. As always, I mainly use Esperanto to chat with friends, but I also read thru something short which someone had translated to Esperanto, and gave them my feedback. A friend talked me into messing with Dutch a little bit, and I am starting to use Toki Pona for sitelen sitelen. Here's a drawing I did using sitelen sitelen characters:
I am aware that I can't keep juggling all these languages and messing around just for fun. My plan at the moment is to allow myself to continue this way, not particularly studying, looking at whatever takes my fancy until September 1st... after which point I will evaluate if my burnout has sufficiently subsided/return to a plan which only includes Japanese, Esperanto, and Spanish for a while. I haven't quite worked out what this plan will be, but it will probably involve Japanese every day, and Esperanto and Spanish on specific days. (besides helping out komencantojn because I love doing that). I figure that if I want to continue messing around with sitelen sitelen, my level of toki pona will be good enough after another 2 weeks that I do not need to put time into studying it anymore, and can just use it for art projects.