#language learning log

[corvid-language-library]

Language Learning Log 2025 - Week 10 (02/03 〜 08/03)

Banner: this week was a little busy, but I still managed to find time for my hobbies, including reading Lotus in the Mountain by Linn Coldiron and playing Pokemon Legends

For Japanese this week, I:

Did Renshuu quizzes

Did kanji practice with Kanji Dojo

Read an NHK Easy article

Continued watching FFVII Rebirth playthroughs with Japanese VA/Subtitles

For Norwegian this week, I:

Wrote 〜200 words

Read a couple of short articles

Read 2x longer articles

Messaged my friend

Watched an episode of Bakemesterskapet

Other things I did this week:

Wrote 12228 words

Made chicken & sweetcorn soup

Ordered birthday presents for two of my colleagues

Got through work with no major mishaps

Continued reading Lotus in the Mountain

Exercised daily

Helped my new colleague with her lessons

My goals this past week were:

Make chicken & sweetcorn soup ✅ It was delicious! But I need to make more next time

Write 10K words ✅ Over 12K

Make a post about Japanese vocab ✅ Just a small one about words I keep forgetting

Continue watching FF7 Remake content in Japanese ✅ Again, not as much as I wanted because it was a busy week, but I watched a bit

Listen to/watch something in Norwegian ✅ Watched an episode of Bakemesteskapet

Get to 30% through Lotus in the Mountain ✅ I'm on 34% now :)

My goals for this coming week are:

Cook (idk what yet)

Watch more FF7 Remake content in Japanese

Listen to a Norwegian podcast or radio

Get to 50% through Lotus in the Mountain

[nordic-language-love]

Japanese

Renshuu

Read a short story

Italki lesson (30m)

Pokemon episode x1

Read part of an article

Grammar video

Norwegian

Read Rødstrupe

Kveldsnytt x3

Speaking practice

Read NaNo messages

Writing practice

I've been feeling pretty burned out this week. Sunday I watched an episode of Pokemon and it made me sad and then I didn't really recover from that before I went into my busiest school week. 20 classes vs my normal average of 14, and the train times are awkward so I have to get to the classroom really early and don't get home until almost 11pm Tuesday - Friday.

But the good news is that NaNo is finished, so now I no longer have to push myself to write 1700 words a day every day. I'm really glad I did it and I'll do NaNo again next year if possible, but I think pushing myself to get all the badges wasn't super beneficial to my mental health. I'm still very proud of what I achieved though!

So yeah, lots of minimal effort studying this week. Hopefully this coming week I'll be feeling a bit more up to proper studying.

Progress updates? Eh, none really this week. I remembered the meanings of a few words in quizzes on Renshuu a bit more easily that I did previously, but that's about it. It's still worth mentioning though because any progress, no matter how small, is still progress, right?

[zwiebelii]

RAH RAH RAH RAH PEOPLE WHO SPEAK/WANT TO LEARN GERMAN AND LIKE THE HOBBIT BOOK. LISTEN TO ME

ARD (THE GERMAN EQUIVALENT TO THE BBC) HAS AN AUDIO BOOK OF THE HOBBIT ONLINE. AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT!

BUT ONLY UNTIL JANUARY 24TH, AFTER THAT THEY'RE TAKING IT DOWN

[voidcat]

..anyways

good night folks, wishing you all a good eid and weekend to come... take care ^^

[cherryvampyyri]

我要努力学习！ 现在复习课，喝抹茶拿铁，我很开心哦~！

[blueskybehindtheclouds]

am i completely irrational for wanting to learn japanese solely for the opportunity to play the zelda games in their original language?😭

[thefakepolyglot]

Language Logs 10/16-10/22

Started using language logs last week to figure out what I'm slacking in for each of my target languages, and shocked on multiple counts. First, that I have such comprehensive resources for Arabic and Italian, but not at all for Norwegian or French.

I've also been trying out different schedules to maintain four languages at the same time. So right now, I'm trying to practice having one day a week be focused on one language. Currently, that's Monday for Arabic, Tuesday for French, Wednesday for Norwegian, and Thursday for Italian. Then, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, I was planning on using to patch up any holes I see in these logs, which I didn't really have time for this weekend oops...

Going to continue with this for another week or so to see if it genuinely helps and if it doesn't I'll be moving on to a different strategy.

All the love to @nordic-language-love for creating these awesome tools! Here is the post where I first read about them and there’s some awesome encouragement and tips on there.

Good look on everyone's language learning journeys!!!!

[fraises-phrases]

🍓 - june 14 2025 - 🍓

Used anki until it told me to stop, I'm new to Anki so I'm using a premade deck. I've found the one I downloaded with the sentences was working more than the one I had with just words on their own

Did a couple exercises from Mathilde Kien's French Made Easy site & did some more exercises in regards to numbers 1-20, i think i have them down alright now. This was something I did learn in French class, but I needed the refresher. It's been so long and I also failed for a reason lol

Watched 1 & a half episodes of fairly odd parents a new wish in french, (I knew I didn't like the second segment of one of them so I skipped it)

read a couple articles from a french pokemon wiki and watched a mario kart challenge video in french, this was really just for fun. Didn't understand most of the video, and I think my ability to semi-comprehend the Pokemon articles was just a matter of me knowing enough about Pokemon that I could tell just from context of the words i did get. Wasn't really taking it seriously anyways, it was more for the sake of fun. Fun is valuable just on its own.

I definitely won't be this productive every day, but I'm wanting to hit the ground running. This is my first time trying to learn a language entirely without Duolingo so I'm exploring options a lot more in regards to materials!

goals for tomorrow

do some grammar study since i've been focusing a lot on vocab!

triple-check i've got the numbers locked in, maybe try higher idk

more anki-ing

figure out months and dates so i can title these posts in french. i could just learn june for now and be good for a while but that feels like cheating

if i find myself on yt shorts again, try and train my algorithm towards french posts and away from english ones. either i learn french or i stop scrolling youtube shorts and either sounds like a win to me. i uninstalled tiktok for a reason i don't want a tiktok in my youtube

[mandoreverie]

Day 29, 20/05/25.

Technically writing this at Day 30, but its still the morning and I'll be busy all morning and noon.

So, yesterday I managed to study for about two and a half hours. I was honestly asleep all morning and busy all night haha so the fact i even got any studying in at all- thank God executive dysfunction didn't beat my ass that day. Sort of.

I'm still figuring out what works the best for me, but today I mostly expanded my vocabulary list.

I know more words than this, but i didn't write down all of them. Im still quite behind on my notes compared to what I've actually studied through HelloChinese and stuff. But honestly, I sort of use my notes as a review? Like I learn it and probably in 3-5 days I'll put it in my notes. It makes sure I actually remember and recall! Though, I do plan to sink in more time to catch up once I'm not busy.

Besides notes, I did about 15 minutes of Anki Flashcards. Some words that I found myself struggling a lot to remember is；没关系，不谢，谁，岁，对不起。not the characters themselves but the meanings.. I often switch up 对不起 and 不客气。

Whenever I can, even if I don't write them down I try to look at what I'm doing or studying and make up my own sentences on the spot, then checking through Google or whatever to see what corrections need to be made.

Since I was at the mall yesterday, I came up with this.

我和我的家和我的姐姐的男友在林荫路。

But after some corrections turns out 林荫路 wasn't a common word for mall like I assumed.

So, I switched it to 商场。

I also found that 我和我的家 wasn't the best to represent "Me and my family". I had assumed 家 would just mean family but turns out it's more common to use 家人？I'm still not too sure. And also that i should omit the 的 before 姐姐。

So, the correction is 我的家人和我姐姐的男友和我在商场。

Hehe, 我们都一起吃饭！

[fore-seer]

valentia’s mediterranean vibes are so important to me

[chahtawordoftheday]

Chahta word of the day #71

Axe-iski̱fa

Here’s a pronunciation guide:

[corvid-language-library]

Language Learning Log 2025 - Week 7 (09/02 〜 15/02)

Banner: We had a lot of snow this week. This was taken last Sunday, and we had a lot more throughout the week!

For Japanese this week, I:

Watched FFVII Remake with Japanese VA/Subtitles

Renshuu quizzes

Read 1x news article

Reviewed kanji with Kanji Dojo app

For Norwegian this week, I:

Read a short article

Went through some recently learned vocab and started making a post

Other things I did this week:

Had a cold and was very brave about it

Wrote 15641 words

Watched Crisis Core cutscene movie (almost 6 hours long)

Covered irregular classes at the school an hour away from me

Shovelled around 70cm of snow from 4 car parking spaces

Made soup

Emailed the useless twats at SLC (again ughh)

Went to the 100¥ store for stuff I needed to organise my lesson materials

Organised the lesson materials I currently have + started making lists of I need to prepare

My goals this past week were:

Work out daily ✅ (Dragged my heels some days and ended up switching some things around on account of being sore/having a cold, but I got it done)

Continue watching FFVII with Japanese VA + subtitles ✅

Write 10K words ✅ (I had 2 days where I wrote over 3K and one day where I wrote over 4K!)

Make soup ✅ (It's pretty good!)

Go to the 100¥ store to get a ring binder, label stickers, wrapping paper and plastic wallets ✅ (I need a second ring binder because turns out one isn't enough, oops! But at least I got all the other stuff)

Start making a post about recently learned/reviewed Norwegian vocab ✅ (I'll try to finish it this week!)

Make at least one post about recently learned Japanese vocab/kanji ✅ (Rushed one on Saturday evening after realising I hadn't done it hehe)

My goals for this coming week are:

Create 8 new vocab picture cards + put them around the flat

Continue watching FFVII with Japanese VA + subtitles

Finish + publish post about recently learned Norwegian vocab

Write 7K words

Go to the 100¥ store for a second ring binder and organise my materials between the two

Make progress acquiring birthday presents for R & L

[nordic-language-love]

Japanese

Renshuu

Italki lessons x2 (30m + 30m)

1 chapter Minna No Nihongo

Spoke with my Japanese colleagues

Listened to music

Short story x1

Irodori

Norwegian

Listened to the radio

Read Rødstrupe

Ut i naturen x1

News articles x2

I listen to Norwegian radio a lot at the moment, although I don't always mark it on my productivity grid. I've been struggling to sleep, so I put on the radio as background noise and it helps to quiet my brain enough for me to drift off.

It's been a tough week. Last Sunday I broke up with my boyfriend after 7 and a half years together. Still not sure it was the right choice, but it's the choice I've made, and I'm not going to go back on it. Sometimes I'm fine and I can just get on with things but then I'll get hit with a wave of unbearable sadness and I can't hold it together.

Anyway, that doesn't really matter.

Friday night was great! I spoke a little bit with my Japanese colleagues, although I had to get them to translate most of their responses. We also went out for karaoke and now I'm determined to learn some popular, fun karaoke songs in Japanese for next time!

I'm picking up the pace wit Rødstrupe, finally. I'd hoped to have finished it already by this point, but, well. I haven't felt much like reading, y'know. But anyway. I highlight vocab as I go along but I'm not sure whethere I'll compile a list or anything afterwards. We'll see.

I'm planning to go back to the UK at the end of this week because I have to go pack up and move my stuff out of our house. I'm gonna try and do a bare minimum of a little Renshuu or some other app and just reading a short news article in Norwegian every day, but other than that I won't really have the time or energy to study.

[waterme-stories]

thinking again about how Maya's family uses a name sign for her (a finger wave into a fist, or maybe an M?), while Fisk's interpretor finger spells it (M-A-Y-A)

[aliteratepenguin]

I love the bitchiness of murderbot's exCUsE mE when it corrects itself to avoid offending humans' sensibilities around violence and death

[luckydoeslanguage]

Weekly Review | 30日四月２０２４年

今週はいいですね！

Had a really good week! As of today, I've been studying consistently again for 1 month. 🎉🎉that means this blog is a month old now too! yippee!

I'm so close to 100 hours of total immersion logged (in total, not this month.) and reflecting on my learning journey so far is interesting!! I'm starting to notice a real increase in improvement. so without further ado, lets go over my week!

Logged 10 hours of immersion this week. most of that is finishing Super Cub and starting Yuru Camp. the rest is playing Animal Crossing almost daily, and bits of youtube.

In total, i logged 22 hours of immersion this month. (most of that was done this week, lol.) my total at the end of the month is 94 hours!

I'm starting to notice a real improvement in my comprehension. I'm getting about 40%-50% of the words i encounter in easier media, and anything i don't understand i mouse over with yomichan, or can pick up with context.

Of course, I finished Super Cub, and started watching Yuru Camp. I'm about half way through it right now, so I'm expecting to finish it this week and write a review of it next week. look forward to that!

I'm still kind of struggling with finding shows to watch for immersion. I think i need to start making a watch list and pre-downloading subs for ASB player so i can make watching a show easier. (really wish ASB worked on firefox, lol)

Also still haven't found a manga to read. どうぶつの森 is basically all the reading practice I'm getting rn and that's all well and good, but i need to branch out more.

Overall a really good week. I was nervous when i came back to learning consistently again, but having a blog to talk about it i think is keeping me more accountable. I'm proud of myself for such a great return to language learning!

Goals for next month:

25 total hours of immersion. with such a successful return to immersion learning, i really want to keep the ball rolling and commit to my studies. after all, I'm really enjoying myself!

Watch at least 3 new shows. when i started immersing i mostly watched the Pokemon anime and Cardcaptor. they're great shows, but i think too long. i want to watch a couple shorter anime i can watch inbetween CCS and pokemon. (maybe watch something a little harder? we'll see.)

seriously, read some manga! I will look into some shoujo series with furigana, maybe try some of the beginner recommended manga?

have 500 cards seen in anki. Im currently at 400ish, but im only doing 3 new cards a day rn. but i want to bump that number up, so hopefully i will learn new vocab faster.

Whew. if youve read all this, thanks! I am looking forward to my continued studies. ^^ until next time! またね！