#language learning milestone

[kosdan-learns-languages]

While I’m at it, let me share something cool with you guys.

Part of the reason I’m learning hindi is this song right here:

I listened to Madhanya for the first time when I was thinking about learning more about India, hindi and the Indian culture as a whole.

Of course, this song got me in a chokehold.

Anyways, recently I finally translated the first part of it!

It was at the beginning of my journey with hindi, so I didn’t exactly retained a lot from it, but I’m so happy! Now, every time I lose motivation to study, I listen to Madhanya again and remember why I fell in love with this language.

And it makes me so excited whenever I listen to it and recognize new words, like, I’m learning!!!

[abiiii-ineffable]

HA!

😏😏😏

[thequeenofsastiel]

Am I proud? Un poco.

[iayecaptainkai]

1,500 Words Known

This was one of the first goals I set out for myself when I started this journey. Things started clicking a little around 1,300 but nothing substantial by any means. I know vocab is just one part of the puzzle. I have noticed myself spotting words in pretty much every sentence I hear so that's currently what pushes me to continue!

I've shifted to more "time in" oriented goals, which is why my #weeklyupdate posts have time tracking for various metrics. It's very easy to get stuck on SRS as your main source of language learning, but that almost feels like the easy way out going forward. That's to say I don't think I would of gotten this far as fast with brute forcing my way here, but going forward I see a route that uses very little SRS and is instead filled with immersive input. That has a lot to do with my comfort in the language now. I don't think I'd be saying this at say, 700 words known.

If anyone is reading this, take anything I say with a grain of salt. I'm by no means an expert and am only sharing how I feel in this very moment.

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

Celebrating a HRT milestone by analysing which symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet I would like to fuck

[ghufranakhan]

Daily dose of English Language

[worldofgoo]

figure 1. basically this means that I can read the majority of really common words but the less common they get the more lost I am

figure 2. this one means that I'm theoretically like a japanese 3rd grader in terms of my literacy

first off check out my japanese proficiency. i started august of last year, apparently, using a (paid) course called wanikani, which is focused on drilling kanji using radicals + mnemonics. it also uses a SRS system if you want to look into what that entails (basically the spacing of the reviews for a given item becomes longer and longer & in this case if you get it right after 3 months of not having seen it you don't have to study it anymore)

progress has slowed over time (I work fulltime now...) but I'm still sticking with it. Actually I might as well show off my timeline too (I love charts and graphs...)

The scale of it is janky because of statistics bullshit (I did a lot of levels very quickly, and the slow ones are taking a while to actually effect my median because. they're slow) but you can see where I switched from being obsessed to kind of overwhelmed, I try to take a month per level now which means it'll take me like 3 more years to finish the course (it ends at level 60).

Uhh, other information since I've been asked this, my history with studying Japanese has been

-trying to teach myself with duolingo + online textbooks + anime, this didn't really work but I learned kana

-two semesters (intensive) in college, gave me new vocabulary but I feel like the focus was grammar which I'm sure I'll appreciate if I ever learn to speak it

-wanikani, occasionally translating memes/tweets, reading articles on nhk news easy, uhhh watching/listening to shit in japanese (very limited usefulness on its own, animelon is very good if it has shows youre interested in on it)

-all of the things here besides Wanikani are super sporadic and I would not call any of it much of a routine. but I'm at the point in the course where you need to start applying the knowledge or it starts feeling kind of useless, so my current plan is to combine interests, so I'm now (VERY SLOWLY, hopefully at least weekly progress) watching films with japanese audio and subtitles

-in the future: when reading is less agonizing, I want to translate manga. I'd also like to practice speaking (I don't feel confident to even try right now), possibly with the Tandem app, or even a tutor if it's something I can afford and fit into a schedule eventually

-end goal is going to japan and not seeming like a dipshit in the process

[liu-yu-xin]

I always knew cantonese speakers also have regional accents (apparently ppl have said xiaojun has a bit of an accent in cantonese but i cant tell at all) but i thought i just wasnt good enough at Cantonese to tell the difference UNTIL today i heard someone speak and i was like That sounds hillbilly cantonese it is not big city cantonese 🙂‍↔️

[rigelmejo]

I think a degree of why Dreaming Spanish is successful for people, is not even that it's an 'only comprehensible input' approach. I think it's successful for so many people, because Dreaming Spanish specifies how many hours a student needs to study to hit various progress milestones.

And a lot of 'traditional' students who study with classes, do not necessarily pay attention to if they studied much outside of class. They may not even pay attention to how many hours of time, in the grand span of their life, they dedicated to learning the language. If you're in classes, and you're studying Spanish 50-100 hours a month, you WILL study the language 600-1200 hours in that year, and you will likely match up to Dreaming Spanish level 4 (A2) or level 6 (B1) skills at the end of the year. If you study Spanish in classes, and you're studying 50-100 hours a month, then in 2 years you will have: 1200 hours to 2400 hours, so DS Level 6 (B1) or past DS Level 7 (B2+, well on your way to C1). For traditional students who DO study 50-100 hours a month, they'll reach decent skill levels in 1-2 years. For traditional students who study less hours per month, they'll probably still reach a decent level if they just keep studying several hours a week regularly for enough years. For Dreaming Spanish learners, who are just following the DS roadmap, they'll reach decent skill levels in a similar amount of hours to those traditional students.

(And a note: FSI estimates are similar to Dreaming Spanish estimates. FSI estimates each week a student is studying 40 hours, which is WAY more than most traditional learners study in a week... and WAY more than most Dreaming Spanish learners learn in a week. FSI estimates 30 weeks to learn Spanish at 40 hours of study a week, or 1200 hours.)

My point is... it seems to be more about hours spent learning, rather than any particular study method or material. Whatever study activities you can get yourself to do, for hundreds to thousands of hours, is what will cause you to reach your goals. The specific route you take, and materials you use, do not matter very much in the big picture.

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[monkeys65words]

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